USC Tourism innovation and entrepreneurship conference opens Monday
July 29, 2015
COLUMBIA, SC – The second annual International Executive Forum on Tourism and Innovation will be in Columbia Aug. 3-4. Presentations by local and international leaders and innovators will look at new technologies and the role of entrepreneurship and innovation within the tourism and hospitality industry in the Americas, the Caribbean and globally.
Simon Hudson, director of the SmartState Center of Economic Excellence in Tourism and Economic Development at the University of South Carolina, is available for interviews to discuss the conference and the future of tourism. A full agenda is available here: http://saeu.sc.edu/reg/tie/agenda.php
To arrange interviews or coverage of the conference, contact Megan Sexton, [email protected], 803-777-1421
UofSC grads launch opera camp for at-risk youth through July 31
UofSC music graduates Brenton O’Hara and Kate McKinney are using their $20,000 winnings from the university’s The Proving Ground entrepreneurial competition to launch an opera camp for at-risk youth July 20 – 31 in Columbia. The camp, which is tuition-free for students age 12-18, uses opera to teach more than a dozen life skills, combining music with team-building, yoga, wellness and leadership. The camp will take place 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.at Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 3200 Trenholm Road, and culminate with a performance of a children’s opera at 7 p.m., July 31, at the Columbia Music Festival Association at 914 Pulaski St.
To arrange coverage and to interview O’Hara and McKinney, contact Peggy Binette, [email protected], 803-777-7704.
