Saturday, 12 May 2012 - 7:39am
A site-seeing scavenger hunt to come to downtown Beaufort
The idea is a scavenger hunt with poetic clues that will lead tourists and locals to small bronze dolphins attached to interesting local sites — expect it to be up and running...
Saturday, 5 May 2012 - 8:34am
Beaufort hotels off to a strong start in 2012
In April we wrote of more good area tourism news in the form of a 6% rise in February hotel occupancy rates, well that trend is continuing.Hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, and...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012 - 10:44am
Checking out Walterboro: Hardly the 'worst cty visit ever'
Island Packet Business Reporter Grant Martin has penned nice feature on Walterboro, here's a taste: On the short drive into town, I passed a long-abandoned drive-in theater...
Friday, 20 April 2012 - 5:45am
Beaufort Waterfront Park getting spruced up for tourist season
If you went down to the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park yesterday, you likely saw the main field turned into a mini-beach. The Island Packet notes (and shares a fun photo...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 - 5:10am
High in the sky, zip line scenery tour opens on Hilton Head
Update 2: The ZipLine attraction opens to the public today.The Island Packet was on hand for a pre-launch event on Monday and has some first impressions.Let us know what you think...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 - 6:37am
A good sign for Beaufort's 2012 tourist season
Remember the good news that came out about South Carolina tourism being up $1 billion, and Hilton Head hotel occupancy being up 5.1% in December?Well, South Carolina is seeing at...
Saturday, 7 April 2012 - 8:59am
A plan for a day trip to Port Royal
Looking for a way to break the buzzkill that the end of Spring Break has brought?No doubt you have run short of things to do, but consider a trip to downtown to Port Royal, where...
Saturday, 31 March 2012 - 8:54am
Tourism rebound solid on Hilton Head too
This week we mentioned how South Carolina had seen a $1 billion rebound in tourism during 2010 — it looks like that trend is continuing closer to home.South of the Broad on Hilton...
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 - 6:22am
A $1 billion rebound for South Carolina's tourism industry
With a $1 billion rebound in 2010, tourists spent some $15 billion in South Carolina during the year after 2009 in the Great Recession — a great rebound to one of South Carolina's...
Monday, 27 February 2012 - 5:34am
Port Royal building out Cypress Wetland trails and attraction (Update: April)
Update February 27: WTOC 11 has a video update on the project and notes that it will likely be ready public use by April and has some video scenery of the project; check it out...
