TOPEKA (KSNT) – Visit Topeka was instrumental in bringing the African American Travel Conference to Topeka this week. The three day convention is being held on the Lodge Topeka Metropolis Heart on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
“This occasion was three years within the making,” mentioned Mike Bell, Vice-President of Sports activities and Advertising and marketing for Go to Topeka. “We’re very completely happy to welcome the African American Journey Convention to our metropolis. It is a nationwide journey convention, these are African American journey planners from throughout our nation. They plan occasions, they plan conventions, they plan just a little little bit of every thing and we’re showcasing Topeka as an excellent place to return. Now we have nice venues right here and an excellent place to have a celebration.”
Tuesday night the group was invited to the downtown Townsite Tower for dinner and leisure. The Topeka Excessive drum line and several other tourism companies from Kansas welcomed the group to the Tower. The Reyes Brothers Organ Trio from Kansas Metropolis supplied Blues music all through the night.
The African American Journey Convention is an affiliation of two,500 journey planners, serving the African American group. Journey Trade of America (TIA) experiences that the African American group travels twice as usually on a gaggle package deal tour because the inhabitants as a complete, and the AATC acts as a supply between Journey Planners and the Journey Trade.
