About Us

 

Visithalifax.com is designed to pique your interest about traveling to Halifax County, NC and to be user-friendly in assisting you with your travel plans. If you need more information about anything listed on our site – accommodations, attractions, restaurants, events, etc. – contact any of the staff people listed below, and they will be happy to provide information or help with travel arrangements.

Halifax County Convention & Visitors Bureau Staff

• Lori Medlin, President/CEO – lmedlin@visithalifax.com
• Susan Wilhelm, Manager of Administration - swilhelm@visithalifax.com
• Percilla West, Visitor Center Coordinator - pwest@visithalifax.com
• Rich Lithgow, Director of Technology - rlithgow@visithalifax.com

In the area? Feel free to stop by and visit!

Halifax County Visitors Center

260 Premier Blvd. Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870 (I-95 NC Exit 173)
252-535-1687, 800-522-4282
Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Governance

Looking for information on our Board and the upcoming meeting schedule? Looking for our Annual Report? Check out our Governance page.

Get Listed!

Listings on VisitHalifax.com are part of Visit Halifax‘s overarching mission to inspire travelers to plan visits and travel to Halifax County. Listings are things to see, do, and experience that visitors often use as the basis for an entire trip.  Only items of regional or wider interest, as opposed to local-only interest, will be considered for approval. Generally, this means that the business or event listed draws visitors from 50 miles or further. VisitHalifax.com is focused on places and events that draw regional, national, or international interest.

Before submitting information to the Visit Halifax team, Visit Halifax asks local contacts to consider the following questions. Answering negatively to one or more of the below will not necessarily exclude an entry. Rather, these questions outline what makes a good (and strong performing) listing on our site:

1. Is the listing telling the potential visitor something they can’t more easily find elsewhere on the internet?
2. What would make a potential visitor take a trip (usually of one hour or more) just for this place or event?
3. Is this something that can be found only in Halifax County? If not, what is the signature appeal or influence to make it special?
4. Would this listing be part of a trip that creates a desire for a return visit?
5. What is the unique back story for this listing?

Using these questions as a guide helps position the listings on VisitHalifax.com as a “trusted insider,” making recommendations rather than just a competitor to Google or other search functions on the web. Anyone can tell someone where a place is or when an event will take place; we want our site to tell people why they should come and the specific experiences they’ll have when they do. For example, we want to emphasize historic places, Halifax County only experiences, natural destinations, food and locally made products. If your accommodation pays occupancy tax directly to Halifax County, we will list it as a Place to Stay. If your accommodation is exclusively booked through a third party, i.e., Air B&B or VBRO, we will refer visitors to those vendors.  In all cases, the Visit Halifax team reserves the right to determine eligibility for inclusion on visithalifax.com or in any other collateral or online promotion undertaken by HCCVB.

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