New Hire At The Columbia Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau
March 11, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC – March 11, 2009 – the Columbia Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau welcomes Brantley Butler as a new Sales Manager. Butler’s major responsibility will include marketing to the medical, scientific, and engineering markets to host their conventions and events in Columbia. She began her new role on Monday, March 2, 2009.
Butler earned her B.S. in Marketing from Clemson University. She has spent several years in the healthcare industry in the capacity of marketing and development. Her additional studies in biology, chemistry, and anatomy will prove to be beneficial to the scientific market. Butler is member of Alpha Lambda Delta Honors Fraternity and Chi Omega Fraternity and has won many awards including the Helen Brown Service Award in 1998.
On Butler joining the Midlands Authority for Conventions, Sports & Tourism, President Ric Luber states, “We are very pleased to have Brantley Butler on board. Her proactive approach fits right in with our current staff and her professional background will be useful as our organization taps into new markets.”
The mission of the Columbia Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau is to strengthen the area’s economy by marketing and selling the region, its accommodations, restaurants, facilities and attractions as a destination for meetings, conventions, tradeshows, special events and leisure travel and by working cooperatively with the hospitality community providing informative materials and assistive services that enhance and promote the economic viability and image of the Columbia Riverbanks Region. For more information, please visit http://www.columbiaconventioncenter.com/ .
