Weekly Tourism News | October 20, 2022 |
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In This Issue:
- Picture This! Visit High Point Destination Guide Cover Photo Contest
- Visit High Point Industry Partners Meeting Recap
- High Point Parks & Recreation Playground Survey
- COHAB.SPACE Hosting Mingle & Market
- High Point's Inaugural Fashion Week Kicks Off This Weekend
- High Point Museum Returns to Market
- HYPE's Trick-or-Treat
- Blair Park NC Civil Rights Trail Marker Dedication
- Open Now!
- Advertising Opportunities
- High Point Blogs & Video Series to Follow
- Groups Coming to High Point
- Featured Events and Calendar
- In the News
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Hospitality and Partner Updates |
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Picture This! Visit High Point Destination Guide Cover Photo Contest
Visit High Point is updating the Official High Point Destination Guide. This year’s guide will be a larger size and represent High Point to out-of-town visitors through large imagery, user-generated content, featured stories, and listings of places to stay, dine and experience while in the area. The guide will be distributed to all area hotels, PTI Airport, North Carolina Welcome Centers, HPU families, and market attendees and be included in welcome bags, relocation, and furniture shopping packets.
Visit High Point is hosting a photo contest for the cover of this year’s Destination Guide.
Through November 8th, 2022, we are inviting the public to enter their most eye-catching High Point photo in the competition. The contest winner will not only have their photo featured on the cover of the destination guide, but they will also receive a $200 Visa Gift Card.
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Visit High Point Industry Partners Meeting Recap
Visit High Point hosted its Industry Partners Meeting Thursday, September 22nd. Meredith Tekin and Jill Worley with IBCCES provided hospitality partners an update on the Certified Autism Destination Initiative. These meetings are held quarterly and partners within the hospitality and events industry are invited to attend. Our next meeting will be held in December. If you would like to host, please contact Nancy Bowman. |
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High Point Parks & Recreation Playground Survey
Playgrounds not only enhance our community; they are an essential part of childhood play. High Point Parks & Recreation is interested in hearing what you think about them!
Please take a moment to complete this survey to help plan for future playground improvements.
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COHAB.SPACE Hosting Mingle & Market
October 19th-26th
1547 West English Street | High Point, NC
COHAB.SPACE is partnering with Kitchenology to bring locals and market attendees delicious and healthful breakfast and lunch options through their food truck. There will be other food trucks, live music, and sunrise yoga. Be sure to stop by for a pick-me-up through October 26th.
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High Point's Inaugural Fashion Week Kicks Off This Weekend
October 21st-26th
Shay Johnson and Geovanni Hood are bringing the world of fashion to High Point and it kicks off this weekend! High Point's Fashion Week will feature many different types of events, including a kids' fashion show, a black tie masquerade fashion show, and an emerging designer competition!
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High Point Museum Returns to Market
The High Point Museum is excited to return to Market this year! This is the first time since the pandemic that the Museum will have a booth at the High Point Furniture Market. It will be located in the Suites at Market Square in space T-829. Visitors are invited to stop by and browse brochures and shop items from the Museum Store. Items include jewelry, home decor, scarves, bags, select pottery, soaps, lotions, and stationery (including postcards). All sales support the care and preservation of the artifacts in the Museum collection.
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HYPE's Trick-or-Treat
Thursday, October 27th | 6 pm-8 pm
Truist Point Stadium
The High Point Rockers and their mascot HYPE will present HYPE’s Trick-or-Treat on Thursday, October 27 at Truist Point.
The free community event is open to all and will include treats, activities, and a Book-A-Treat. The Rockers and High Point LEAP (Literacy Empowers All People) will sponsor a live book reading by Sterling B. Freeman, who will be reading his very own children's books to those who want to join.
HYPE’s Trick-or-Treat will also feature an appearance by the Rockers’ lovable mascot, HYPE, the rocking horse. Participants are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes.
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Blair Park NC Civil Rights Trail Marker Dedication
Friday, November 4th |12 pm
Corner of Nathan Hunt Drive and South Main Street
The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and the High Point Museum will be holding a dedication ceremony for the new historic marker at Blair Park Golf Course on Friday, November 4th at noon. The program will take place at the corner of Nathan Hunt Drive and South Main Street in High Point, NC.
The marker will be included in the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail and celebrates the prominent African American doctors, Perry Little, H.H. Creft, and George Simkins, who protested against the city’s segregated recreational facilities by playing golf at the Blair Park municipal course in December 1954.
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Core Coffee Opens in High Point!
Core Coffee features a full-service espresso bar, cold-pressed juices, real fruit smoothies, & an array of healthy grab-and-go snacks and meals. They utilize local and health-conscious providers to serve you, so you can feel good about what you're eating and drinking! Core Coffee offers order-ahead catering for your office or meeting needs, and take-home brewing/bulk options to enjoy fresh coffee in your kitchen!
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Advertising Opportunities |
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Airport Authority Community Wall
The Airport Authority has a Community Wall in the main terminal of the Airport so that visitors passing through our airport will learn something about our region and the kinds of events that take place here.
Their vision is to keep this wall vibrant and fresh by rotating additional events and attractions into the available slots on the wall. They are soliciting additional events and attractions.
They ask that participants pay the expense of production of each panel. The six small panels (113 inches by 53.5 inches) cost $400 each to produce excluding photography; the large panel (113 inches by 107 inches) cost $600 to produce, excluding photography.
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High Point Blogs & Video Series to Follow |
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Side by Side with Nido Qubein
Tuesdays at 7:00 pm | PBS NC
Marc Randolph is an American tech entrepreneur, advisor, and speaker. He is the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix and High Point University’s Entrepreneur in Residence. A serial entrepreneur who helped found the U.S. edition of the magazine "Macworld" and the computer mail-order businesses MacWarehouse and MicroWarehouse, Randolph now serves on the boards of Looker Data Sciences and Chubbies Shorts. He previously served on the boards of Getable, Rafter, and ReadyForce. Randolph, who has equated founding companies to his experience as a mountain guide, is the chairman of the board of trustees of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Lander, Wyoming, and a board member of the environmental advocacy group 1% for the Planet.
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Groups Coming to High Point |
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High Point will welcome back 75,000 market attendees for the Fall High Point Market October 22nd-26th. Please help us welcome and support High Point's vibrant home furnishings industry and give them an unforgettable experience in our city. |
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Featured Events and Calendar |
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Click on the photo below for a complete listing of all things happening in the High Point-Jamestown area. |
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The Events Calendar is a great platform for local businesses to promote their events and specials in a free way. At the Visitors Center, we not only promote this calendar to locals but also to visitors who are planning a trip to High Point. We also use the Events Calendar when finding content for blogs, Visit High Point Facebook and Instagram pages, and newsletters. Help us keep this calendar full and show off all High Point has to offer! |
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ICYMI—Below are recent articles highlighting hospitality, tourism, and partners in High Point. |
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1634 North Main Street, Suite 102
High Point, N.C. 27262
336.884.5255
Text 'VisitHP' to 95000
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