Visitor spending increased in Pender County in 2015. Visit North Carolina announced today that domestic visitors to and within Pender County spent $92.34 million in 2015, an increase of 3 percent from 2014. “Tourism is an important portion of our local economy,” said Tammy Proctor, Pender County’s tourism director. In Pender County, according to the 2015 County Economic Impact numbers, 820 jobs...
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PENDER COUNTY – A new video highlighting a few attractions in Pender County was released this week by the Pender County commissioners and tourism office. The video was written, directed and produced by NCA Productions, based out of Wilmington. “A visit to the Wilmington Business Expo resulted in this professional video,” said Tammy Proctor, director of tourism. “We dropped a business card...
Each week the tourism office gives a quick wrap-up of happenings and a look ahead. Click here to read this week's Tourism Update. Subscribe to our weekly update and calendar of events by emailing tproctor@pendercountync.gov.
Our summer interns have scattered back to various parts of the country after winding up their three month program with an action packed week. Our turtle vet, Dr. Craig Harms came down from CMAST (Morehead City) on Tuesday with a long “to do” list: turtles to examine, treatments to update, blood to draw and radiographs to shoot and review. Our regular hospital volunteers were all back on deck as of last...
