Our History

45 Years of Service

Originally named the Anaheim Area Visitor & Convention Bureau, the Bureau was formed in a small Anaheim farmhouse in 1961.

It had five employees and was created to market local hotels and businesses to leisure and business travelers year-round. Disneyland had opened just six years before in 1955, and the Anaheim Convention Center would not be open for business until 1967.

The Bureau has since grown and evolved with the Orange County area, now considered one of the premier meetings and vacation locations in the nation. In the early 1990s, the Bureau changed its name to the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau to better reflect and promote its member partnerships across the enire region.

Today, the Bureau has 52 employees devoted to marketing the destination. We are committed to promoting our destination and the Bureau brand, providing exceptional service to clients and visitors, seeking inventive ways to market our destination and increasing Anaheim/Orange County's positon in the marketshare.