POSTPONED: Chamber Focus: How Tourism Can Benefit My Business

Please join us as Alan Carr, Executive Director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, educates our guests on the power of tourism in our region and how it can benefit your business.
Key takeaways:

• Impact of Tourism in the community
• How to make your business visitor friendly
• How you can work with the CVB to grow tourism

Alan Carr is the new executive director of the Kansas City Kansas Convention & Visitors Bureau. He has spent his career in destination marketing including 10 years at Visit KC, where he served as vice president of marketing & communications. During that time, he and his team oversaw development of the Visit KC brand, Kansas City Restaurant Week and the reopening of the Kansas City Film Office. In 2015, he started Carr Strategies where he has worked with more than a dozen destinations across Kansas and Missouri to develop tourism marketing strategies, branding and marketing campaigns. He grew up in Butler County, Kansas, and is a graduate of the University of Kansas.