International Travel Development
The goal of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) sales team is to increase the number of visitors and increase our market share for nights spent in the state. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Georgia was ranked 13th nationally in 2007 in the number of international visitors.
The sales team works to build the Georgia tourism product with domestic-based international receptive operators, international wholesalers and operators, and web-based international tourism sales revenues and to raise awareness of Georgia with international consumers through international public relations programs.
Georgia's international sales, marketing, and public relations efforts remain concentrated on visitors from Canada, the United Kingdom (below), Germany (below) and China (below). The tourism division also works with GDecD's trade representatives in Mexico, Brazil , Japan and Israel to promote Georgia as a tourism destination.
Annual Tradeshows/Sales Missions:
Discover America (Canada)
International Pow Wow (Orlando)
World Travel Market (London, Nov. 2010)
ITB Berlin (March 2010)
UK Sales Mission
German Sales Mission
China Sales Mission
China International Travel Mart (Shanghai, Nov. 2010)
Active America-China (Chicago, March-April, 2010)
Listed below are the contacts for GDEcD's international representatives in Germany, the United Kingdom and China.
Germany, Austria and Switzerland Sales Office
Wolfgang Streitbörger
Managing Director
C/O Georgia Department of Economic Development
Horstheider Weg 106A
33613 Bielefeld
Germany
Phone: 011-49-521-986-0425
Fax: 011-49-521-986-0411
Email: georgia@deep-south-usa.de
Web: www.georgiaonmymind.de
United Kingdom & Ireland Sales Office
Anne Young
Managing Director
C/O Georgia Depoartment of Economic Development
3, Shenstone
Linfield
West Sussex
RH16 2PU
United Kingdom
Phone: 011-44-1444-483767
Fax: 011-44-1462-440783
Email: ayoung@georgia.org
China Sales Office
Stella Sixing XuChina Project Manager
Georgia Department of Economic Development
75 fifth Street, NW
Suite 1200
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone: 404-962-4081
Fax: 404-962-4093
Email: sxu@georgia.org