Visit Phoenix
Rachel Gohel has extensive experience in media relations and tourism marketing, currently serving as Media Relations Manager at Visit Phoenix since February 2022. In this role, Rachel oversees a team of media relations specialists, guides storytelling about the Greater Phoenix area, and hosts media missions and inbound media. Prior to Visit Phoenix, Rachel held the position of Media Relations Manager and later Content Strategist at Tempe Tourism Office, focusing on social media and influencer marketing strategies. Earlier career experiences include roles at Fossil Group, Inc., Visit Mesa, and City of Mesa, providing a strong foundation in sales, customer service, and event coordination. Rachel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Tourism Development & Management from Arizona State University and an Associate's degree in General Studies from Chandler/Gilbert Community College.
Visit Phoenix
Visit Phoenix is a non-profit organization that promotes the Greater Phoenix community to a global audience of travelers and books conventions into the Phoenix Convention Center and area hotels and resorts. Visit Phoenix cultivates and maintains relationships with convention and meeting planners, journalists and influencers, travel agents and tour operators. We produce marketing and brand campaigns promoting leisure travel and meetings, coordinate site visits, conduct media tours and maintain the official tourism website for Greater Phoenix. In partnership with our more than 1,000 member businesses, Visit Phoenix brings business to Greater Phoenix that would not otherwise come—from leisure visitors to group meetings to popular sports events. Through this, Greater Phoenix can compete in today’s globalized, networked world for its share of the world’s consumers, businesses, investment, capital, respect, and attention.