Public Policy Committee
Advocacy Pillar:
- Public Policy Committee develops the annual policy platform, participates in the annual legislative events, evaluates legislative affairs, and works to solve specific issues for the destination marketing industry at the Capitol. The official purpose of the committee is to educate elected officials about the tourism industry and to keep the membership abreast of bills in the state legislature, laws, government requirements and other issues that affect destination marketing organizations.
2025 Public Policy Committee:
- Joseph Marinelli, Visit Savannah - Committee Chair
- Bennish Brown, Destination Augusta
- Gary Wheat, Visit Macon
- Lisa Smith, Georgia's Rome Office of Tourism
- David DiSalvo, Visit Valdosta
- Scott McQuade, Golden Isles CVB
- Andy Williams, Visit Roswell
- Rebekah Snider, Visit Milledgeville
- Jeff Hewitt, Visit Savannah, GACVB Chairman
- Lee Hughes, Hughes Public Affairs - GACVB Public Affairs Staff
- Amanda Dyson- Thornton, GACVB Staff
Pictured Above: Amanda Dyson- Thornton, GACVB Executive Director, Jeff Hewitt, GACVB Chairman, Rep. Ron Stevens- District 164, Chair of Economic Development & Tourism Committee & Jay Markwalter, Statewide Tourism Director, Explore Georgia
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