The New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau is a 1,000-member destination marketing organization that is the largest and most successful private economic development corporation in Louisiana. The New Orleans CVB creates $5 billion in new revenue each year by attracting millions of visitors, special events and conventions. It provides direct sales, marketing, public relations, branding and visitor services for the New Orleans tourist industry at its offices in that city as well as in Chicago, New York, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. and four foreign countries.