North Carolina High Country Host is a membership marketing organization serving six counties in the Northwestern mountains of North Carolina. HCH was formed in 1980 as a cooperative marketing organization to promote the High Country area through pooled capital in the form of memberships invested by area tourism businesses. Since then, High Country Host has won many prestigious awards and has become a model for several other host organizations throughout North Carolina and beyond.

Our primary mission is to attract visitors to the High Country through extensive marketing and then direct them to member businesses. These marketing efforts have, in the past, included ads in magazines like Southern Living, National Geographic, Woman's Day and many others.

In addition to our cooperative marketing efforts, High Country Host maintains a Visitor Information Center in Boone, a Web site (www.mountainsofnc.com), produces and distributes 160,000 copies of our full-color Mountain Vacation Planner, and provides many other services to its members and to visitors.

Each month, High Country Host averages 3,000 visitors and 600 phone calls that come into the Visitor Center. In addition, the web site receives an average of just under 10,000 unique visits per month and continues to grow.

• I want to be a High Country Host Member - Click here to fill out an application
• I am already a Host Member and I want to post online - Click here to register on the website
• I have already registered and I'm ready to post online to the specials and deals section - Click here to login and start posting
  

Benefits of Joining High Country Host

• Opportunity to participate in cooperative advertising
• Listing in our full-color Mountain Vacation Planner
• Opportunity to purchase advertising in the Vacation Planner
• Phone referrals from our Visitor Center staff
• Brochure distribution at Visitor Center
• Opportunity to send brochures with us to tradeshows and consumer shows for a nominal fee
• Benefits from www.mountainsofnc.com web site:
  
  • Listing on our online business directory
  • Link from our web site to yours
  • Opportunity to post Specials and Deals for visitors to see
  • Opportunity to post Rental Packages with other Host Members for visitors to see
  • Calendar featuring member events
• Opportunity to have displays at Visitor Center: Baker's Rack monthly displays
• Marketing Assistance
• Hospitality Training for employees
• Legislative monitoring
• Representation on several tourism-related boards
• Access to tourism research and statistics

Your Investment

Testimonials

"High Country Host does an excellent job of attracting visitors to our area through its marketing. Just as importantly, they do a great job of helping our visitors find lodging, shops, places to eat, and things to do to make their visit a success. Happy customers come back and they also tell their friends to come. All types of businesses need to be part of HCH's marketing and service efforts."
-Harris Prevost
Grandfather Mountain

"High Country Host's ongoing efforts to attract visitors to our area has been remarkable. Through the creation and distribution of a resourceful guidebook, to the development of and continued achievements in the High Country Host website, to co-op advertising and joint marketing opportunities, Chetola enjoys the continued benefits of our marketing partnership with High Country Host."
-Kent Tarbutton, Proprietor
Marcia Field, Marketing Director
Chetola Mountain Resort

"We are thoroughly satisfied members of High Country Host. Your organization far outshines any other similar service in Boone in promoting our bed & breakfast to visitors. As far as we're concerned, we cannot afford NOT to be members! Thank you and your excellent staff for serving us since 1997."
The Baird House
-Tom & Deede Hinson