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Governor Glenn Youngkin announced that the Town of Culpeper, VA received $60,000 from the Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) Marketing Leverage Program (MLP), Special Events & Festivals Program, Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) Program, Regional Marketing Program (RMP) and the VA250 Tourism Marketing Program. In total, VTC awarded more than $3.2 million for 236 local and regional tourism marketing programs across the state to help increase visitation and revenue for Virginia’s localities through tourism.

The Virginia Association of Destination Marketing Organizations (VADMO) awarded the Town of Culpeper’s Tourism and Economic Development team two Virgo Awards for ‘Tourism Professional of the Year’ and ‘Niche Tourism’ at their annual Spring symposium held in Suffolk, VA.

Tourism revenue for Culpeper, Virginia reached $68.8 million in 2021, a 32.8 percent increase over 2020. Local tourism-supported jobs totaled 650 while local tourism-related taxes were $2,916,623.