Joanie Flynn, Vice President of Marketing for Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism, has spent her entire career promoting travel and tourism. Over her career she has actively marketed leisure travel, meetings travel, vacation rentals and now destination marketing management. The underlying thread has been promoting to the needs of travelers and linking their interests with the assets to be promoted.
Joanie grew up just across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Rafael, CA, got her BA from UC Santa Barbara in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations and her MBA in marketing from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.