Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board
Joseph Bates has been a research specialist at the Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board since November 2021. Prior to that, they were a senior graphic designer at Phenom from December 2018 to November 2021. Before that, they were a graphic designer at eMoney Advisor from September 2015 to December 2018, where they created visual concepts for advertisements, trade shows, brochures, magazines, and corporate reports. Joseph Bates has also worked as a graphic designer at Safeguard Business Systems from October 2007 to August 2015, where they created marketing collateral for small to mid-sized businesses.
Joseph Bates attended Upper Perkiomen High School and then Elizabethtown College, where they earned a B.A. in Communications.
Their manager is Justine Garbarino, AVP of Marketing. They work with Joel Hoffman - Creative Manager, Maureen DiLello - Digital Marketing Manager.
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Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board
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The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board is a private, non-profit membership sales and marketing organization which actively promotes the Valley Forge area and Montgomery County as a convention site and leisure visitor destination by promoting patronage of its member hotels, restaurants, attractions and services. The Board represents more than 600 member businesses throughout Southeast Pennsylvania. The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board was established as the Valley Forge Convention and Visitors Bureau by the Montgomery County Commissioners in 1963, making it the officially chartered tourism promotion agency of Montgomery County. It was an agency of Montgomery County until 1999, when the County Commissioners voted to privatize the bureau, while maintaining fiduciary oversight through appointment of the agency's volunteer board of directors. The Board is now a private organization. Funding comes from a combination of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania grants, membership dues and a tax imposed on visitors occupying the County's more than 9,200 hotel rooms. The Board does not receive funding from Montgomery County.