Visit Fort Wayne has created a campaign to kick off "Plan for Vacation Day," January 26. The campaign invites visitors and residents to invite friends and family to plan a vacation this summer in Fort Wayne. Participants have the option to send a digital or physical postcard as a personalized invite from VisitFortWayne.com, or they can even purchase a “Plan For Vacation” gift box, full of fun surprises to help them look forward to their Fort Wayne getaway this summer!

Take a look at the full campaign and send a postcard here!

To help build awareness and promote public safety, the NCAA has launched "Mask Madness," distributing 100,000 masks throughout the state of Indiana. Visit Fort Wayne has been chosen as one of the distribution centers for these masks and all are welcome to stop by the Visitors Center to pick up an NCAA branded mask during business hours.

The Fort Wayne Visitors Center is excited to be growing our locally produced merchandise as we expand these items at our physical location and online store.

Twelve local artists and artisans are now represented at the Visitors Center, exposing their products to more customers and providing our visitors with quality, locally-made goods to help them remember their time in Fort Wayne, and represent our city around their hometown.

Take a look at the full catalog of local products at the Visitors Center's online store here.

With the new year upon us, Visit Fort Wayne is looking to fill our calendar with events happening in 2021.

Please submit your upcoming events to CurrentFortWayne.com. Built on Visit Fort Wayne’s calendar system, the site includes all Allen County events and feeds appropriate events to the calendars of Arts United, Downtown Improvement District, Visit Fort Wayne, Riverfront Fort Wayne, YLNI, and others.

In addition, CurrentFortWayne.com serves as a master calendar for the community. You can submit your event once, and it will appear on all of these calendars!

Take a look at our guidelines for submitting here, and submit your event here! 

Visit Fort Wayne is governed by a 22-member board of civic leaders. For this new year, we are so pleased to welcome Rick Schuiteman, new Executive Director of the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, Curt Witcher, Genealogy Center Manager at the Genealogy Center, and Therese Brown, Allen County Commissioner, to our Visit Fort Wayne Board.

Board Officers and Members include:

Danette Fitzgerald, Parkview Health

Visit Fort Wayne is grateful for the guidance and council of every board member and is looking forward to this new year in 2021!

Take a look at Fort Wayne's resources for COVID-19 prevention awareness, and utilize their toolkit of flyers, social media assets, and complete video series intended to help businesses make decisions, protect their staff, and communicate with the community.

View all of the Defend the Fort assets here.