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The local Fairbanks organizing committee will unveil the community’s choice and grand prize winning entrant for the theme for the 2014 Fairbanks Arctic Winter Games (AWG) bid on Wednesday, June 2 at 11 am at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center, 101 Dunkel Street in downtown... Read full article

The local Fairbanks AWG committee will be accepting votes through May 14 for your favorite theme for the 2014 Fairbanks Arctic Winter Games (AWG) bid. Members of the public are asked to vote only once for one of the following themes submitted by members of the community and selected by... Read full article

Adventure Green Alaska (AGA), the state’s first tourism certification program highlighting sustainable business practice awarded Pike’s Waterfront Lodge its Gold Level certification on March 10, 2010 in Palmer, Alaska during a gathering of tour operators, public agencies and visitor industry... Read full article

Alaska’s Olympic history reaches back several thousand years.  Every July, Fairbanks hosts the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (WEIO), a four-day series of traditional Alaska Native athletic competitions and dances. WEIO draws Native athletes and dancers from around the state, the United States... Read full article

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The Fairbanks visitor industry is gearing up their family, friends, community non-profit organizations and other local businesses to walk and eat for charity in the Fairbanks Eighth Alaska’s Visitor Industry’s Walk for Charity.  Billed as the “4K Graze,” the event is coordinated by... Read full article

The Fairbanks North Star Borough is preparing its bid for the 2014 Arctic Winter Games. If you support the games being held here in Fairbanks, would like to volunteer, or have been a past athlete or coach, it's time to get involved and fill out the participant form and be counted! Read full article

The Fairbanks Convention & Visitors Bureau is recruiting Golden Heart Greeters to greet and assist the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention delegates October 18-23, 2010. Free Golden Heart Greeter orientation and cross-cultural communications training is provided and required for all... Read full article

The Fairbanks Convention & Visitors Bureau (FCVB) will host two AlaskaHost trainings in April and May at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center., 101 Dunkel Street in downtown Fairbanks. Customer Service Essentials (3-hour class) will be offered May 6 from 9 am-12 pm at a... Read full article

Motorcoach & group tourism and travel both to and within Alaska is a powerful economic engine that infuses tourism dollars locally and statewide, creating economic growth, hospitality industry jobs, and new tax revenue, a new interactive online tool recently released by the American Bus... Read full article

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