Thank you Diane Merlino for the opportunity to be a part of the Travel Weekly feature: "Beyond the Bucket List: Experiential, Community-based Cultural Tourism". It was so terrific to have the very timely cultural tourism conversation alongside fellow community engaged cultural tourism ambassadors: Christie Holmes, Stephen Perry, Stephen Oddo, Debra Brown and Steve Lima. #culturaltourism #culturalheritage #traveltourism #uschmc #culturalmarketing #culturaltraveler #experier

Join our conversation this week to discuss the connection of arts, culture, history, heritage and performance experiences amidst the current travel climate and the forecast recovery strategies in 2021. I'm honored to join Connect Travel,Will Seccombe,Seth Spillman,Staci Mellman and Josh Collins for this timely conversation with our collective global cultural partners and destinations.#USCHMC #TheCulturalTraveler #CulturalTourism To learn more, visit:https://lnkd.in/g74nUfT

The U.S. Cultural & Heritage Tourism Marketing Council (USCHMC) was invited to spearhead a cultural & heritage symposium session for the 2019 Louisiana Lt. Governor's Travel Summit, held in Baton Rouge. "Louisiana's urban connections have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, that is strongly influenced by a blend of 18th-century French, Spanish, Haitian, Native American, and African cultures. Simply Louisiana.", says Richard Peterson, CEO of USCHMC. "It was important to ha