News Releases

Announced this morning, MovieMaker magazine has crowned Kansas City as one of the Best Places to Live and Work as Moviemaker in 2021. This is the third-consecutive year Kansas City, Missouri, has received the honor from the trade publication and its...

Kansas City, Mo.—Celebrating and supporting hundreds of local businesses, Kansas City Restaurant Week presented by Sysco returns to the metro, Jan. 8-17. From carryout and delivery services to traditional dine-in experiences, the 12th annual event will...

Visit KC, the chief hospitality sales and marketing organization for the region, announced today the relocation of its business operations to Spark Kansas City, a collaborative workspace in the heart of the Power & Light...

Kansas City’s largest event space, the Kansas City Convention Center, has achieved accreditation from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) STAR™ program for its cleaning, disinfection and infectious disease prevention practices.

The City of Kansas City, Missouri, has awarded a five-year contract extension to Visit KC as its official destination management organization. Effective May 1, 2021, with the option to renew for an additional year at the City’s...

Visit KC and the Kansas City Sports Commission are pleased to announce that Kansas City has been selected to host 3 NCAA Championship Events over four academic years spanning 2022/23 through 2025/26.

Organizers of Kansas City Restaurant Week announced today the dates and featured charity for its 12th annual event celebrating the metro’s diverse culinary scene. Presented by Sysco, KC Restaurant Week is slated to return Jan. 8-17, 2021.

In response to KCMO Parks & Recreation Commissioner Christopher Goode to rename the J.C. Nichols Fountain and the adjacent J.C. Nichols Parkway, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, and Visit KC are...

Loews Hotels & Co, a New York based hospitality company, today opens the Loews Kansas City Hotel. The hotel will debut with 800 guestrooms and 60,000 square feet of meeting and event space, which connects directly to the...

Kansas City, Mo.—In order to maintain funding for key operations and programs, Visit KC announced Monday a mixture of furloughs and job eliminations which will impact 21 of its 47 full-time positions—or 44% of the non-profit's workforce. These changes...