Blog & News
GANYC Will Keep Fighting For NYC's Tourism Recovery
By now, many in the NYC tourism sector have seen this NY Times article making the rounds:
"Tourism, Engine for N.Y.C. Economy, May Not Fully Recover Until 2025"
This article is causing a lot of panic in the NYC tourism world, and only time will tell whether that it is warranted or not. The news…
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GANYC Guides Make News!
We love when GANYC members are spotlighted in the media, and here are some recent examples:
1. The Red Hook Star-Revue has just published an article in their November 2020 issue, about our Tour Your Own City site/initiative, and how NYC guides are your best tool to uncovering the hidden gems of…
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Tour Your Own City Wins Tenacity in Travel 2020 Award!
Groups Today, the community for group travel professionals, has published its Readers’ Choice Awards for Tenacity in Travel 2020. GANYC is proud to announce that we are among the recipients. Guides Association Vice President Michael Morgenthal was honored for spearheading our Tour Your Own City…
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Borough Landmarks Quizzes!
The Landmarks Preservation Commission has created a 5-borough quiz challenge. Ready to see how well you know unique landmarks from each of the boroughs? Here you go:
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
The Bronx
Staten Island
Which borough do you know best?
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Trump to City: Drop Dead
2020 has certainly been a year of escalations in many ways. In the Spring and early Summer, many publications were filled with a growing genre: the "New York is dead" story, almost always from the perspective of well-to-do Manhattanites who fled to their Summer homes in the Hamptons or Connecticut…
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NY1 Features GANYC and Tour Your Own City
GANYC and its new Tour Your Own City initiative and website were featured in a NY1 segment this morning. We thank Spectrum News NY1 and Shannan Ferry for spotlighting our work to help this crucial industry recover.
Tour Your Own City was launched to help New York area residents fall in love with…
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Tour Your Own City Launches!
GANYC is proud to announce that Tour Your Own City launches today! This project has been a labor of love for GANYC leadership for several months. It is GANYC’s latest effort to help lead the recovery of New York City’s $71 billion tourism industry in the wake of COVID-19.
Tour Your Own City is a…
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Reopening Roundup!
New York City began the process of reopening back in June, amidst great caution. There have been many changes in the game plan since then, with data based on re-openings in other states showing that mass indoor dining, bars, theaters, etc, risk a COVID resurgence here, and so those remain in limbo…
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NYC Tourist Attractions Reopen. Minus The Tourists.
New York City began its phases of reopenings in June, amidst a Summer that has seen New York turn around the COVID case numbers more than any other comparable state. Rather than just declare victory and start a reopening frenzy-- a strategy to came back to bite many other states this Summer-- New…
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August 5 Monthly GANYC Meeting
GANYC held its August membership meeting last night online. Thanks to all who virtually attended!
In light of everything that has occurred in 2020, the meeting was largely an open forum allowing members to ask questions of the Executive Board and Committee Chairs about GANYC, tour guiding in the…
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