Visit St. Francisville

Spent last week in New York City making sales calls with our partners to update them on everything Visit St. Francisville has to offer! We partnered with Visit Baton Rouge and Visit The Northshore to curate multi-day itineraries for their clients to ensure they have a great Louisiana experience while here! Thank you to Tico Soto and his company, Tourism Tactics by Tico for planning the mission!

Visitors to St. Francisville, La generated $30.6 million in visitor spending, boosting local economy! https://lnkd.in/ejNTq_KR

Spent the day at MSWIT Fashion show Fundraiser to showcase Visit St. Francisville Loved getting to see some industry friends and sharing all of the great things we have in St Fran!

In honor of National Trails Day, we are excited to announce the launch of The Feliciana Backroads Trail! This trail is highlighting some of West Feliciana Parish’s beautiful backroads and rural attractions for motorists and cyclists alike. The route will take participants through sandy bottomed creeks, birding paths, historic sunken roads, rolling hills, and more! It’ll take about a half day to complete, so it’s the perfect addition to a weekend itinerary! It’s common that St. Francisville locals will take a Sunday afternoon drive through these roads. Now you can join them as you explore rural West Feliciana Parish! You can pick up a brochure at the West Feliciana Historic Society Museum, or visit the link below to download the brochure and get an integrated Google Map with directions. 🗺️ https://lnkd.in/g7mCQkFK #StFrancisville #VisitStFrancisville #ExploreWestFeliciana #onlyLouisiana #ForTheInspiredTraveler #VisitTheVille #NationalTrailsDay

This week is National Travel and Tourism Week. It is a week dedicated to highlighting all of the hard work and dedication that people in the travel and tourism industry do to provide unique and quality experiences to visitors from all over! We are going around this week to share some sweets with our partners around the parish that help make St. Francisville a favorite destination for travelers. Tourism is incredibly important to our local economy, and those workers and businesses that are on the frontlines of the industry are some of the best in the world! Thank you to all of you who continue to inspire travel to St. Francisville and West Feliciana parish! Note that those pictured are just a fraction of the many great people that make St. Francisville for place for the inspired traveler! #NTTW2024 #StFrancisville #VisitStFrancisville #ExploreWestFeliciana #onlyLouisiana #ForTheInspiredTraveler #VisitTheVille

This weekend, The Gumbo Group (made up of West Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, East & West Baton Rouge, Accession, River Parishes, Livingston, Tangipahoa, Washington, and St. Helena Parish tourism offices) hosted a group of travel writers, bloggers, and influencers from Houston, Dallas, and Austin. We showed them around all of our areas (as best we could with a very short amount of time at each stop) for them to learn more about what a visitor could do for a getaway to Southeast Louisiana. Texas is a big feeder market for Louisiana and we hope to see more visitors from our western neighbor after these pieces are published! Shoutout to Tourism Tactics By Tico for planning and supervising this great media fam tour! It was a great way to lead into National Travel & Tourism Week! Visit St. Francisville #SelaGumbo #VisitStFrancisville #NTTW

This weekend, we hosted a group of international journalists from Canada, Norway, The Netherlands, and Brazil on their Pre- Travel South USA Global Summit & Media Marketplace Fam Tour. They got to see some great highlights from St. Francisville, as well as learn about all of the new things happening around the parish. Thank you to Louisiana Office of Tourism and Lloyd Devan Corbello for accompanying them while here!

These past couple of weeks, I have had the pleasure and honor to represent Visit St. Francisville on the Louisiana Office of Tourism sales and media mission to Amsterdam, Paris, and London! Throughout our time there, I was able to meet with tour companies that provide itineraries to Louisiana for their clients, and also meet with media outlets that highlight stories and places in Louisiana. We also had some fun consumer activations at Centraal Station in Amsterdam and at Americana Restaurant in London where we got to talk one-on-one with potential visitors to Louisiana. We were also able to meet with representatives from the U.S. embassies and consulates in each city to update them on the impact that international tourism has on our community. It was great to share all of the things we have to do in St. Francisville! The Netherlands, France, and The UK are some of the top places for international visitors to Louisiana. We joined New Orleans & Company , Hotel Monteleone, Lafayette Travel, Visit Shreveport-Bossier, and Visit Baton Rouge to show them just how to explore Louisiana and see different parts of the state. Huge shoutout to the teams with the Louisiana Office of Tourism, Target Travel Marketing (Amsterdam), B World Communication (France), and Travel & Tourism Marketing Ltd (TTM) (UK) for organizing this trip and making it such a success!

Last night at the Louisiana Travel Association’s annual meeting-“A Celebration of Louisiana”, West Feliciana Parish was well represented in the recipients of the Louey Awards! Visit St. Francisville took home the Louey Award for Outstanding Tourist Commission/CVB of the Year (with a budget of up to $499,999)! The St. Francisville Inn received the Accommodation of the Year award for providing guests with exceptional service, amenities, and more! And James & Ashley Fox-Smith and Country Roads Magazine was the recipient of the Victor Profits Memorial Travel Media Award for their contributions and commitment to showcasing destinations through innovative editorial content and more! We are all so proud and honored to have been awarded these distinctions! #LoueyAwards #StFrancisville #VisitStFrancisville #ExploreWestFeliciana #onlyLouisiana #ForTheInspiredTraveler