Visit Yazoo
Description
Follow the road less traveled to a place as authentic, colorful, and unique as you are! Visit Yazoo County, Mississippi. Are you tired of fighting the big-city crowds, the commercialized and sanitized 'blues destinations', the lack of hometown hospitality and personal attention, or the overall absence of relaxation in your vacation destination? Yazoo County is waiting for you. Whether we're your hometown, your annual expedition, or an off-the-beaten-path chance excursion - Yazoo County is ready to welcome you with open arms. Enjoy blues, history, heritage, the great outdoors and more. Call us at 800.381.0662 or learn more at www.VisitYazoo.org. Y'all come see us.
A This Old House 2012 Best Old-House Neighborhood - Yazoo City's Town Center Historic District
Nominated as one of the Prettiest Painted Places in America, 2012
Yazoo City's Glenwood Cemetery voted as runner-up in "Spookiest Cemeteries in the US" poll on HuffPost Travel, 2012
Yazoo County CVB - Founded in 1993 to promote tourism to Yazoo County, Mississippi
Our Awards-
Winner of a Readers’ Choice Award from ConventionSouth Magazine in 2015 & 2016
Research-in-Action Award – Delta Area 2015 from the Mississippi Development Authority
Delta’s Best Tourism award in 2014 from the Mississippi Delta Strategic Compact
4-time Constant Contact All Star winner (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015)
3-time winner (2012, 2013, 2014) of CVB of the Year from the Mississippi Tourism Association.
Our Mission-
The Yazoo County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) joins the interests of city and county government, trade and civic associations and travel suppliers to increase visitor traffic to our area. The Bureau acts as a liaison between potential visitors and those that host them. The aim of our CVB is to position Yazoo County as a regionally, nationally and internationally recognized destination by developing quality marketing programs and sales outreach to attract visitors to our area. All requests for funding from any group/organization will be filtered by this Mission Statement and must help us meet our goal of increased visitor traffic.
Open public meetings of the Board of Directors of the Yazoo County Convention & Visitors Bureau are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 4:00 p.m. in the conference room of the Yazoo County CVB office at 110 N Jerry Clower Blvd, Suite S, Yazoo City, Mississippi.
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RECENT FACEBOOK POSTS
facebook.comHallelujah Wang Dang Doodle
Yazoo has more FUN going on this #MemorialDayWeekend than you can shake a stick at! The #HallelujahWangDangDoodle includes three nights of FREE music, food, and fun at Mary's Happy Medium in Yazoo City, May 26th, 27th, and 28th!
Visit Yazoo
Here's some parking info for this Saturday's Back Home Again Event! Please share! #MemorialDay #BackHomeAgain #Yazoo Parking on Saturday will be available at the Purvis family lot and Shaffer and Collins Funeral Home lot for a donation of $5 to the Yariah Purvis Medical fund.
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We're so excited! Check out the June issue of Delta Sky Magazine! The issue includes a profile on Mississippi and a spectacular article about #blues tourism including rave reviews of the Blue Front Cafe, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, and next month's Bentonia Blues Festival! There's even a quote from Yazoo City's Fletcher Cox of the Philadelphia Eagles and his ❤️❤️❤️ for the Wallace family's Tutti Fruitti snow cone stand! Check it out, then come check out Yazoo County, Mississippi! We're colorful, authentic, and unique...Just like you! Thanks for all the LOVE Delta! Visit the Mississippi Delta Visit Mississippi
Bentonia Blues Festival
Only 4 Saturdays til the 45th anniversary Bentonia Blues Festival! Check out the official poster and lineup below, and make your plans now to attend! June 12-17, 2017 in Bentonia, Mississippi! #therealdeal #itiswhatitis #realdealblues #visitthdelta #VisitMS
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What a SPECTACULAR event Delta Supper Club put on last night at the Triangle Cultural Center in historic downtown Yazoo City! HUGE Thanks to all who attended and especially to the hard-working folks who made it happen behind the scenes! We hope we'll see more #DCS events in Yazoo County in the future. Can't wait to see what y'all do next! ❤️🍛🎵 #WitchofYazoo #thatlaughthough #supperclub
Grady Champion
Don't miss Grady Champion at the Back Home Again Event in Yazoo City this Memorial Day weekend! 🎵🎶🎵
Timeline Photos
This beautiful building, built in 1904 as the Main Street School, is playing host to @deltasupperclub tomorrow night! "The Triangle" as the locals lovingly call it, is now the Triangle Cultural Center, home to an artist's studio, framing shop, Yazoo City School of Dance, and the Sam Olden Yazoo Historical Society Museum. ❤️💛💚💙💜 #localhistory #supperclub #DSC #historicsite #museum #goodeats
Delta Supper Club
Back Home Again in Yazoo City May 26-26, 2017
Looking for something fun to do this #MemorialDay weekend? Yazoo has got you covered! The BACK HOME AGAIN EVENT takes place May 26-28 including arts, live blues, gospel, and R&B, basketball shoot-outs, a 5K, and much more featuring GRAMMY winner Grady Champion on Saturday night! Learn more about this and other events at www.visityazoo.org.
Bumpers Drive-In Corporate
LIKE if you remember the commercials... "Bump, bump, bump on in to Bumpers" in Yazoo City! Be sure to go to Bumpers Drive-In Corporate to take a guess, like, and share to enter! #contest #drivein
Delta Supper Club
#DSC in Yazoo City is right around the corner! ❤️
Delta Supper Club
It's almost here!! #DSC #YazooCity #tooexcitedtosleep
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