Join us Monday, March 17 and Tuesday, March 18, 2025 to learn, connect, and celebrate!
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MARCH 17 – 18, 2025 • ASHEVILLE, NC
Expand your digital marketing skills, strategize how to reach potential visitors, and learn to tell your community’s story in a way that creates growth and success for everyone.
Join Us for the 8th Annual DIY Tourism Marketing Conference
Digital marketing constantly changes, but you don’t need to navigate those changes alone.
Effectively enticing visitors to explore your community, make a reservation, attend your events, and shop at your local businesses is tough enough on its own. It doesn’t get any easier when the platforms, tools, strategies, and trends constantly evolve with consumer behaviors. Digital marketing in the tourism, travel, and hospitality industries requires skill, strategy, and creativity. That’s why we created the DIY Tourism Marketing Conference and the DIY Tourism 365: A Year-Round Learning Community.
In its 8th year, this conference provides the latest digital strategies, resources, and tools to help you reach potential visitors and motivate them to visit. Our programming is developed to help participants attract visitors, increase lodging revenue, engage residents, and create a vibrant local economy. Get ready to level up your tourism marketing and navigate competition, changing traveler behavior, and evolving digital trends.
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“There has never been a more important time to visit Western North Carolina or a more valuable time to grow your skills as a tourism marketer. By visiting the mountains and showcasing that visit on your social media outlets, you are helping us prove that our best way to get back, is for you to come back to North Carolina.”
~ Wit Tuttell, Director of Visit North Carolina
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The March 2025 DIY Tourism Marketing Conference will be held at the Renaissance Hotel Downtown Asheville in the heart of one of the South’s hottest destination cities: Asheville, North Carolina. Enjoy the many amenities at the resort property, or visit the eclectic restaurants, art galleries, breweries, and music venues all within walking distance. Discover the best of what Asheville has to offer while enjoying comfortable, modern meeting spaces and guest rooms.
Past Attendees Have Hailed From All Over…
Alabama
- Athens
- Auburn
- Decatur
- Huntsville
- Jacksonville
- Opelika
Arizona
- Chandler
- Pheonix
Florida
- Jacksonville
- Ocala
Georgia
- Calhoun
- Dahlonega
- Decatur
- Douglas
- Lawrenceville
Indiana
- Jasper
- Knox County
- Vincennes
Kentucky
- Henderson
- Lexington
- Morehead
Maryland
- Taneytown
New York
- New York
North Carolina
- Albemarle
- Asheville
- Beech Mountain
- Black Mountain
- Boone
- Brevard
- Burnsville
- Bryson City
- Cleveland County
- Clinton
- Elkin
- Fletcher
- Granville County
- Grandfather Mountain
- Greene County
- Greenville
- Halifax County
- Hendersonville
- Hickory
- High Point
- Jackson
- Jacksonville/Onslow County
- Johnston County
- Lake Junaluska
- Marion
- Morehead City
- Morganton
- Mount Airy
- Oxford
- Pinehurst
- Polk County
- Raleigh
- Rockingham County
- Rumbling Bald
- Rutherford County
North Carolina continued
- Sampson County
- Shelby
- Statesville
- Sylva
- Taylorsville
- Waynesville
- Weaverville
- Winston-Salem
Ohio
- Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
- Bradford
- Carlisle
- Clearfield County
- Endless Mountains
- Erie
- Johnstown
- Latrobe
- Lawrence County
- Lebanon
- Lewisburg
- Pottsville
- Schuylkill
- Scranton
- Tunkhannock
- York
South Carolina
- Beaufort
- Charleston
- Columbia
- Florence
- Greenville
- Greer
- Jasper County
- McColl
- Oconee
- Rock Hill
- Santee
- West Union
South Dakota
- Rapid City
Tennessee
- Eagleville
Virginia
- Ashburn
- Martinsville
- Mechanicsville
West Virginia
- Bluefield
- Clarksburg
- Huntington
- Parkersburg
- Vienna
- Weston
Wyoming
- Cheyenne
… And They Have Some Things to Say.
This is an outstanding conference.
…Practical tools and strategies that you can implement…
It covers so many topics in a very personal atmosphere.
I enjoyed every session I attended. I only wish I could have been in two places at once.
Why We Created the Conference
We created the DIY Tourism Marketing Conference because we believe the internet levels the playing field for everyone. Not every organization has the financial resources to hire an agency or digital marketing expert, but there are many effective strategies and tools for promoting your story and competing in the marketplace that you can (and should) implement on your own.
Space is limited and the event is expected to sell out!
What You Will Learn
Learn how to tell your story in a compelling way that reaches the right audience and encourages them to take action. Session topics change every year based on trends in the travel and tourism industry as well as cutting-edge developments in communications technology overall.
Topics include:
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- Digital storytelling that reaches visitors and engages residents
- Organic and paid social media strategy and best practices
- AI marketing platforms and best practices
- SEO and Google technology
- DIY video marketing and graphic design
- Digital advertising on Google and Microsoft
- Partnership and influencer marketing tactics
- Ethical marketing and the power of positive impact
What makes us unique
The DIY Tourism Marketing Conference is not your average business conference. While other conferences may give vague recommendations and theoretical examples, ours is solely focused on teaching with a focus on real-life, personal examples.
It’s also held in one of the country’s fastest-growing tourism destinations: Asheville, North Carolina. Asheville is the ultimate tourism success story in the southeast, and we have hands-on experience growing our mountain town to where it is today. Enjoy the sights, sounds, and colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains while you gain new marketing strategies you can take back to your destination, attraction, or tourism-related business.
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