Spring 2019 A Tourist in My Own Town: Taking A Fresh Look at Coastal Alabama By Marcia Bradford, ConventionSouth Senior Editor My experiences with the Alabama Gulf Coast go WAY back. My husband and I have lived in Gulf Shores for more than 20 years and our children were raised here. But I also traveled… Read more »

Site Visit By D. Fran Morley   My husband is a fiddle player by trade, and recently, he had to be in Knoxville for a concert. I thought it was a perfect opportunity to go along and check out a new boutique hotel in the city, The Tennessean.  It turned out to be a better decision than… Read more »

By D. Fran Morley For nearly 25 years, starting in the early 1990s, I lived in Fairhope, Alabama, just a few miles down the road from the “Queen of Southern Resorts,” the Grand Hotel Golf Resort and Spa at Point Clear, a 550-acre resort complex on the shore of Mobile Bay. Over the years, I attended events, meetings… Read more »

ConventionSouth Magazine Releases Its 2019 List Of “The South’s Top 8 Hidden Tracks of the Southern Music Scene” Based on Reader & Fan Votes GULF SHORES, Ala. (Sept. 16, 2019)—This September, ConventionSouth magazine, a national multimedia resource for those who plan events held within the South, asked readers and Facebook fans to vote for the… Read more »

We’re travelling to North Carolina for Rendezvous South 2020! Early registration is now open for RS2020 in Winston-Salem, NC. The event will be held at the Marriott Winston-Salem and Benton Convention Center on March 2-4, 2020. About Rendezvous South More Details to Come Soon!

GULF SHORES, Ala. (April 4, 2019) — The results are in for ConventionSouth’s list of the Top Resorts with Style. In mid-March, ConventionSouth Editors compiled a Facebook ballot with a list of 50 stylish resorts that exceed expectations. From those resorts, ConventionSouth readers and Facebook fans were asked to vote for their top picks. A complete… Read more »