Queens Tourism Council

QEDC, through the Queens Tourism Council, is the official tourism marketing and coordination organization for the borough of Queens. The Council promotes the world’s most diverse county through events, marketing initiatives, advocacy, and resource sharing.

No visit to New York City is truly complete without a day in the World's Borough – with some of the best food on the planet, diverse cultural experiences around every corner, hundreds of major sporting and performing art events each year, the most photogenic views, and even more to uncover across every neighborhood. But most of all: Queens is the most authentically "New York" part of New York.

Home to the city's two major airports and the second-largest number of hotel rooms of any borough, the tourism economy in Queens employs thousands of residents and generates more than a billion dollars of annual economic activity.

It's in Queens

It's in Queens is our long-running publication, event calendar, and multimedia initiative dedicated to featuring the best to see, eat, and do in Queens. Learn more, read the latest, and sign up for the newsletter at the It's in Queens website below.

It's In Queens Website

Council Members

The members of Queens Tourism Council include museums, performing arts spaces, aviation partners, community organizations, and other tourism economy stakeholders from across Queens. If you are interested in joining the council, please contact Rob Mackay.

  • 82nd Street Partnership
  • Alley Pond Environmental Center
  • Anat.
  • Applebee's
  • Bayside Village
  • C&G Cleaning Service
  • Delta Airlines
  • Easy Charter Bus
  • Festival of Cinema NYC
  • Flushing Town Hall
  • GOGO Charters
  • Greater Astoria Historical Society
  • Jamaica Center BID
  • JFK International Airport Chamber of Commerce
  • King Manor Museum
  • Kupferberg Center for the Arts
  • Lewis H. Latimer House
  • Long Island City Partnership
  • Louis Armstrong House Museum
  • MoMA PS1
  • Museum of the Moving Image
  • Musica Reginae Productions
  • Myrtle Avenue BID
  • New York Hall of Science
  • Oratio Society of Queens
  • Prototype Music
  • Queens Botanical Garden
  • Queens County Farm Museum
  • Queens Food Tours
  • Queens Historical Society
  • Queens Museum
  • Queens Symphony Orchestra
  • Queens Theatre
  • Resorts World Casino
  • Sculpture Center
  • Shofur
  • Skyline Cruises and Events
  • Socrates Sculture Park
  • St. John's University
  • Sunnyside Shines
  • The New York Mets
  • The Noguchi Museum
  • The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
  • The Queens World Film Festival
  • Travel Unity
  • USTA
  • Voelker Orth Museum
  • Yelp
  • York College
$11.3 Billion
Annual tourism spending in Queens
2023 - Tourism Economics
11.9%
Of jobs in Queens are tied to tourism
2023 - Tourism Economics
#2
Queens's share of the NYC tourism economy (21%), is second only to Manhattan
2023 - Tourism Economics

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