A warm welcome to Fred Dixon, the President and CEO of NYC & Company, New York City’s official destination marketing organization. With more than 30 years of experience in the travel industry, Dixon has the overall responsibility for developing and implementing New York City’s tourism, meetings, and convention development strategy.
In this episode, Fred Dixon and Jeff Gayduk dive in to the state of travel business in New York City, the recovery rates of business sectors, news about conventions and meetings in NYC, local
attractions, the old classics, exciting new additions, what struggles the tourism bureau faced during Covid-19 and the inbound travel market.
“…the New York you know and love is there…the theaters are full with productions and broadways back to its cycle of shows opening, running their life and then closing and new ones coming in, which is incredibly exciting and we’re seeing with the museums and the major exhibitions, you know, a calendar that’s chock full of events.” – Fred Dixon
“Organizations like ours, you know, it is really about keeping the faith and keeping the focus and support of the community. We’re so fortunate in New York to have an amazing industry of suppliers and supporters and stakeholders that really kept the faith throughout everything that was going on.” – Fred Dixon
