May 15, 2025 - The upcoming beach renourishment project along the Grand Strand is scheduled to begin late fall 2025, with completion anticipated by mid-summer 2026. With this schedule, the renourishment will avoid taking place during peak hurricane season and complete on schedule.
The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce & CVB wants to hear from residents in Horry and Georgetown counties! Our resident survey is now open for you to share your opinions.
Join us for this Special Thank You Event celebrating the Carolina Forest Wildfire 1st Responders on April 14, 2025 at Pelicans Stadium.
Fans can follow the PGA TOUR on the new PGA TOUR app and PGATOUR.COM, and on social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram (in Spanish, Korean and Japanese), LinkedIn, TikTok, X (in English and Spanish), WhatsApp (in English and Spanish), WeChat, Weibo, Toutiao, Douyin and LINE.
Visit Myrtle Beach is proud to announce its recognition as one of nine travel organizations and one of only two U.S.-based destination marketing organizations to receive a 2024 Travel Vanguard Award from Afar magazine, an international authority in inspiring and empowering conscientious travelers.
2024 marked a year of resilience, creativity and meaningful progress as the Myrtle Beach area welcomed millions and reinforced that The Beach is for everyBODY.
From record-breaking economic impact to national recognition for accessibility, the Myrtle Beach area continued to build positive momentum in 2024 as a thriving and welcoming place to live, work and play.
This month, Karen Riordan, president and CEO for the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB, presented the 2021 Annual Plan to the Myrtle Beach City Council. This annual plan outlines the key strategic priorities for the Chamber and CVB, including several initiatives supporting tourism recovery, community building, diversity, and advocacy, among others.
Karen Riordan, president & CEO of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau (MBACVB), provided a quarterly marketing report to the Myrtle Beach City Council today. The update included a Q2 A-tax and TDF spending report, a recap of marketing objectives and tactics throughout the pandemic, and a look at the current fall marketing campaign for Visit Myrtle Beach.
A record 20.4 million visitors in the Myrtle Beach area generated $10.8 billion in expenditures in 2018, continuing a trend of year-over-year growth, and echoing the impact of the tourism industry reported by the South Carolina Parks, Recreation & Tourism yesterday during the South Carolina Governor’s Conference on Tourism & Travel.
The success of the Myrtle Beach area as a premiere beach destination is inspiring and it’s our partners who help make this success a reality each day. The Myrtle Beach area’s tourism industry continues to grow and sets new records each year. The numbers tell the story – in 2018, 20.4 million people visited the destination and generated $10.8 billion in expenditures, up 4% and 7% year over year respectively. While we won’t have 2019 numbers until spring 2020, our tax collections indicate strong year over year growth, including a 10% increase for TDF through October.
