MORGANTOWN – It’s become a bit of a go-to statistic for state Tourism Secretary Chelsea Ruby. For every 100 people who visit West Virginia, 87 will return. She never tires of sharing it. “I don’t ever want to be a bucket list destination. A bucket list destination is a place ...
MORGANTOWN -- Could you imagine if the entire combined populations of California and Texas visited West Virginia in the span of one year? It's a rhetorical question, but it requires no real imagination. Because you’d also have to tack on the population of Virginia to hit a number ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice and two members of his team came to Coopers Rock State Forest Monday afternoon to celebrate progress on new cabins and infrastructure upgrades to boost tourism there — and to celebrate similar progress all across the state park system. Justice, Tourism ...
MORGANTOWN — People aren’t coming to Morgantown for vacation. They’re not spending months planning to fly across the country for a week-long getaway to north-central West Virginia. But they are coming. And in record numbers. Four years after ...
The West Virginia Department of Tourism kicked off the fall season by recently releasing its first fall foliage report of the year. Although slightly slower than initially projected, the higher elevations of the Mountain State are now beginning to show signs of autumn. These weekly reports ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice joined Intuit executive, co-founder of the Wing 2 Wing Foundation, and West Virginia native Brad Smith and his wife, Alys, to unveil a new statewide remote work program during a press conference Monday morning. “We have expanded tourism phenomenally in the ...