About Us

Discover Long Island is the region's one and only destination marketing organization—and the premier partner for helping Long Island businesses thrive! For over 45 years, we've fueled Long Island's $7.5 billion tourism and hospitality economy. We help local businesses prosper through press coverage, global marketing campaigns, our East End partnership with News 12, the Long Island Tea podcast reaching over 70 countries, partner-specific events, and so much more. As a partnership-driven organization, every business featured on our website, mobile app, and marketing channels is a proud annual member. Our mission is to elevate Long Island to new heights together!

With an in-house team of masters in video production, journalism marketing, graphic design, and social media – specializing in hospitality & tourism industries – we produce award-winning content and campaigns designed to attract visitors to our destination and area businesses. Named “Best Social Media” in the nation by US Travel Association, the leading industry authority, our 11 prolific social media channels, the YouTube series Long Island TV and the Long Island Tea podcast have earned an audience reach of over 10 million. Our marketing initiatives have won several awards over the years for our outstanding content including a most recently a Bronze Telly Award for our "You BeLONG" video campaign and two FMC Folio Awards for Best Nonprofit Website and Best Podcast: Lifestyle.

Who We Are

Discover Long Island contributes to Long Island by promoting the region as a world-class destination for visitors, meetings and conventions.

Our services provide a wide range of options for businesses and organizations of all sizes. We continue to be a research-driven organization, guiding our approach to marketing, communication, and consumer outreach to remain current with consumer trends and insights. This furthers our vision of being the driving organization for sustainability and quality of life on Long Island.

To further drive overnight visitors to our region, we employ an experienced event sales team that is dedicated to luring lucrative meetings and events to Long Island hotels generating more than $20 million of economic activity annually.