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Group Travel Contacts

Grey Brennan

Deputy Director

grey.brennan@tourism.alabama.gov
(334) 242-4459

Courtney Austin

Sales
Marketing Administrative Assistant

courtney.austin@tourism.alabama.gov
(334) 242-4674

Erin Norton

International Sales Manager

erin.norton@tourism.alabama.gov
(334) 242- 8477

Jade Moye

Executive Assistant to Deputy Director

jade.moye@tourism.alabama.gov
334-242-4459

Jamie Martin

Staff Photographer

jamie.martin@tourism.alabama.gov
(334)242-4717

Rosemary Judkins

Multicultural Development

rosemary.judkins@tourism.alabama.gov
(334) 242-4493

Shawna Faniel

Domestic Sales Manager

shawna.faniel@tourism.alabama.gov
334-353-1907

Group Travel Resources

Tourism Exchange

In August of 2023,  the Alabama Tourism Department announced we have joined with regional and national tourism organizations to allow Alabama tourism suppliers to place their inventory on the Tourism Exchange USA marketplace for distribution.

Currently Alabama tourism businesses, attractions, outfitters and tour guides are working to place their product on Tourism Exchange USA. This will allow for real-time sales of those products to a network of distributors worldwide who have also joined the B2B marketplace.

A couple of those Alabama suppliers are now in the final stages of being listed with many more coming soon.

Final stages to listed on Tourism Exchange USA:

  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
  • Alabama Music Hall of Fame
  • Freedom Line Tours

Anticipated to begin the process soon:

  • Explore The South Alabama Birding Tour for April 2024
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Montgomery
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Montgomery/Selma/Tuskegee
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Birmingham
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Family Fun Birmingham
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Florence/Muscle Shoals
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for the Huntsville Area
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Gulf Shores/Orange Beach area
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Mobile area
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Mobile
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Anniston & East Central Alabama
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for East Central Alabama
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for East Central Alabama Family Fun
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Auburn/Opelika & Alexander City
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Dothan-Eufaula
  • All-in-One Alabama Multi-Attraction Ticket for Tuscaloosa

We encourage companies that wish to connect to suppliers of Alabama Tourism product to join the Tourism Exchange USA marketplace by going to this link https://tourismexchangeusa.com/get-connected/

 

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Five day U.S. Civil Rights Itinerary – Circle tour of top sites

To force change in the United States of America, many took to the streets in the 1960s in deliberate, non-violent confrontations to demand social justice. Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma, among others, were anvils on which civil rights victories were hammered.

Historic events transformed ordinary citizens like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Fred Shuttlesworth, Fred Gray and others into legends.  Churches were protests were planned are today recognized.

This circle tour takes you on a journey where thousands risked their lives to reshape America. Their bravery and courage inspired the world.

Download this 5 day circle itinerary that starts and ends in Atlanta and includes Anniston, Birmingham, Selma Montgomery and Tuskegee.

 

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List of guides, transportation companies and other services in Alabama

To help contact tour companies with the resources they need, the Alabama Tourism Department has a searchable database of guides and transportation companies.

Click here and search by city and type of service needed; such as tour guide, tour operator, receptive operator, charter company or motorcoach company.  All information, including classification of type of company is provided by the entity.

To view all of a type in Alabama, leave the city box blank

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Education Destinations

The Alabama Tourism Department has gathered a list of important adult and student educational destinations for SYTA and other group tour companies.

From U.S. Civil Rights, STEAM, and environmental programs at our beach. What happen in Alabama changed the world and continues to do so today.

For more information, contact Shawna Faniel, Domestic Sales Manager, Alabama Tourism Department, shawna.faniel@tourism.alabama.gov.

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Alabama’s Best Rooms with a View

If you like looking out  from your balcony and seeing a scenic view while spending the night, then check out the series of stories that AL.com published on their website in August of 2013.

Alabama’s Best Rooms With a View: Nautical and nice in Point Clear

Alabama’s Best Rooms With a View: Lake Martin and leopard spots

Alabama’s Best Rooms With a View: Go jump in a lake, Guntersville that is

Alabama’s best Rooms With a View; Top o’ the mountain in Mentone

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Group Travel News

Alabama’s UK representative forms his own company

September 22, 2020

  Andy Facer, who has served as Alabama’s main contact for tour operators in the U.K. & Ireland markets since 2017 has formed his own company with Alabama as his first account. Facer previously worked for Global Travel Marketing, a firm headed by Venessa Alexander, who’s decision to pursue other interest was advanced when Covid […]

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Social Justice and Civil Rights Tours that make a difference

August 11, 2020

The tragedies and triumphs that took place in Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s awakened an entire nation and the world to the reality of racial injustice. Now, tour companies in the U.S. and around the world can offer tours in which your clients will experience the legacy of those who changed history while they […]

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Education Product –Environment & Sustainability / STEM, STEAM – Jean-Michel Couteau’s Ambassadors of the Environment

August 10, 2020

Ambassadors of the Environment at Gulf Coast is a multi-day educational experience developed in partnership with Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society and the Gulf Coast Center for Ecotourism & Sustainability.  This program is located at the Learning Campus at Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, Alabama.   While visiting the Ambassadors program, students are guided through […]

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