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Newport News Now is a daily e-newsletter that launched in March 2016. Articles that ran in our newsletter between March 2016 and March 2018 are available on these pages. Newsletters produced beginning in April 2018 can be viewed on our new daily newsletter page.

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Jul 28

Newport News Featured as the Cover Story in the AAA Tidewater Traveler

Posted on July 28, 2017 at 9:15 AM by Communications Department

The July/August 2017 issue of the Tidewater Traveler magazine highlights Newport News in the article Hidden Gems: From Gators to Ships to Shopping, Newport News Offers Summertime Fun.  The magazine is a AAA publication that is published bi-monthly and provides highlights and travel news to members.

Tidewater Traveler editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Harryman, chose to write the article after attending the Society of American Travel Writers Familiarization Tour held here in May 2015 along with various familiarization tours offered throughout the region. The article is appearing on the websites of the following AAA magazines, in addition to Tidewater Traveler:

  • Westways (the magazine of the Auto Club of Southern California, which has a circulation of 4 million, a readership of 8 million, and 48 percent penetration of the Southern California market).
  • AAA Hawaii
  • Alabama Journey
  • Texas Journey
  • New Mexico Journey
  • Northern New England Journey

Excluding Westways, the publications have a combined circulation of more than 6 million and a combined readership of about 12 million. To read the full article download it online here.AAA magazine