TBEX (Travel Blogger Exchange) has announced Lafayette, Louisiana as the host destination for their 2022 North American Conference taking place October 12-14 at the CAJUNDOME Convention Center with travel bloggers throughout the United States expected to attend. TBEX is the largest conference and networking event for travel bloggers, online travel journalists, new media content creators, travel brands, and industry professionals. Each year, TBEX partners with a host destination in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific to bring the travel industry's most creative minds together to learn, network, and do business.

“We chose Lafayette for several simple but important reasons. We know this will be the first time many of our attendees have visited Cajun & Creole country and they are going to be overwhelmed by how much this city has to offer. The CAJUNDOME Convention Center fits the tech-centered culture of our community of travel content creators perfectly. Lastly and most importantly Lafayette Convention & Visitors Commission truly understand the impact of travel bloggers and how important this shift to new media is for their city. We think they are a perfect destination organization to showcase what TBEX is all about.” Rick Calvert, CEO & Co-founder of New Media Expo and TBEX.

“It will be a tremendous honor to host TBEX in October for its North American conference. TBEX has been held in fabulous destinations all over the world, and to have Lafayette Parish added to the list is another prestige event for our area that will put us on the map once again. In addition to the room nights that the conference will generate, the most important part of having these bloggers in town will be tens of millions of dollars in earned media that it will generate in positive press for our area for years to come. Previous cities that have hosted the event such as Huntsville, AL received over 41 million in media as a result of the conference.” Ben Berthelot, President, and CEO, Lafayette Travel.

“We are thrilled to welcome the TBEX North America to Louisiana in 2022 along with the hundreds of travel bloggers and online travel media that will be attending,” said Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser. “While visiting, attendees will get a taste of all the ways you can Feed Your Soul with Louisiana's unique culture, delicious fresh seafood, one-of-a-kind music, and beautiful outdoors. And as the home of some of the friendliest people in the world, they can expect the warm welcome you'll receive only in Louisiana.”

To stay up to date on conference details as they become available, including registration, visit TBEXCon.com/2022-North-America/.

ABOUT TBEX
TBEX represents the future of travel media. Our mission is to empower modern-day travel storytellers with the tools and education they need to create amazing content, expand their audience, and thrive as new media entrepreneurs. TBEX's annual conference is the world's largest gathering of bloggers, writers, and new media content creators in the travel and lifestyle industry. TBEX also attracts many of the world's leading brands and tourism bureaus who are eager to connect with the travel journalists of the future. American Express, Booking.com, Eurail, Lonely Planet, TripAdvisor, Turkish Airlines, Hyatt, and HomeAway support the conferences alongside tourism offices including Barcelona Tourisme, Catalunya, This is Athens, Falte Ireland, Canadian Tourism Commission, Visit Britain, Visit Florida, Croatia, Dominican Republic, British Columbia, and many more.

ABOUT LAFAYETTE TRAVEL
Lafayette Travel was created in 1974 to serve as tourism promotion and marketing coordinator for all of Lafayette Parish. Lafayette Travel's mission is to provide leadership in initiating as well as coordinating the marketing of Lafayette throughout the world as a highly desirable vacation, group, convention, and sports destination. We also solicit and service conventions and other related group business, and engage in visitor promotions, which generate overnight stays for Lafayette, thereby enhancing and developing the economic fabric of the community.