1200 North Oak Street, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577

843.916.7267
888.411.2976
FAX: 843.448.3010

DANNA LILLY, CMP
DIRECTOR OF SALES
Danna.Lilly@VisitMyrtleBeach.com

Q What is your best-kept secret?

A “The development of Myrtle Beach as a meeting destination. We've long been known as a value destination for golfers and families, but many planners don't realize the impact that new upscale hotels, facilities, and attractions have made in attracting new meetings.”

Find

• Major airport: Myrtle Beach International (MYR)

• Distance from airport: 2 miles, 5 minutes

Stay

• Total number of meeting hotels/guest rooms: 30 hotels that provide meeting facilities and a total number of 90,000 rooms in the area

Meet

• Major convention center: Myrtle Beach Convention Center

• Number of meeting rooms: 20

• Capacity of largest, theater-style: 10,000

• Total square footage of exhibit space: 100,800 square feet

• Meeting facilities features:

  • 17,000-square-foot ballroom

  • 30,000-square-foot outdoor events plaza

Enjoy

• Broadway at the Beach — Featuring more than 100 specialty shops, 20 restaurants, and 11 bars and nightclubs

• Brookgreen Gardens — 6,000 acres filled with beautiful Lowcountry gardens, majestic live oaks, and more than 900 works by 300 of the greatest names in American sculpture

• Seven live entertainment theaters and more than 100 golf courses

When

• Value or shoulder seasons:

  • September-November
  • March-May
  • December-February

New

• Myrtle Beach International Airport extension, new passenger terminal construction begins 2010

• Mile-long boardwalk and promenade opening in late spring 2010

“THE NEW DOWNTOWN BOARDWALK IS PART OF THE EFFORTS THE CITY IS TAKING TO REVAMP OLD DOWNTOWN MYRTLE BEACH. THE OCEANFRONT BOARDWALK AND PROMENADE WILL STRETCH FOR A MILE WHEN IT OPENS THIS YEAR.”

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