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Destination DC serves as the lead organization to successfully manage and market Washington, DC as a premier global convention, tourism and special events destination, with a special emphasis on the arts, cultural and historical communities. By developing and executing centralized and cohesive sales and marketing strategies, Destination DC generates economic development for the city through tourism and meetings. In 2007, visitor spending exceeded $5.5 billion, representing $620 million in new tax dollars for the District of Columbia.

Destination DC is a private, non-profit corporation with a membership of more than 1,000 businesses and organizations that support the DC travel and tourism sector. A contracting arm of the Washington Convention Center Authority, the organization is funded by a percentage of DC’s hotel occupancy tax, along with membership dues and co-operative marketing fees.

Formerly known as the Washington, DC Convention & Tourism Corporation (WCTC), the organization was re-named in 2008 to reflect the organization’s increased emphasis on the city’s unique assets. The organization was established by business and community leaders in April 2001 by merging the Washington, DC Convention and Visitors Association and the DC Committee to Promote Washington. The Washington, DC Convention and Visitors Association was founded in 1931 to promote convention and leisure travel to the nation’s capital.

State institutions

Two-year institutions
• Bellevue College, Bellevue
• Bellingham Technical College, Bellingham
• Big Bend Community College, Moses Lake
• Cascadia Community College, Bothell
• Centralia College, Centralia
• Clark College, Vancouver
• Clover Park Technical College, Lakewood
• Columbia Basin College, Pasco
• Community Colleges of Spokane
• Institute for Extended Learning, Spokane
• Spokane Community College, Spokane
• Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane
• Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood
• Everett Community College, Everett
• Green River Community College, Auburn
• Highline Community College
• Des Moines
• Federal Way
• Lake Washington Technical College, Kirkland
• Lower Columbia College, Longview
• Olympic College, Bremerton
• Peninsula College, Port Angeles
• Pierce College
• Lakewood
• Puyallup
• Seattle Community College District
• North Seattle Community College, Seattle
• Seattle Central Community College, Seattle
• Seattle Vocational Institute, Seattle
• South Seattle Community College, Seattle
• Shoreline Community College, Shoreline
• Tacoma Community College, Tacoma
• Walla Walla Community College, Walla Walla
• Whatcom Community College, Bellingham
• Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima

Four-year institutions
• Central Washington University, Ellensburg
• Eastern Washington University, Cheney
• The Evergreen State College, Olympia
• University of Washington, Seattle
• University of Washington, Bothell, Bothell
• University of Washington North Sound (future)
• University of Washington, Tacoma, Tacoma
• Washington State University, Pullman
• Washington State University, Spokane, Spokane
• Washington State University, Tri-Cities, Richland
• Washington State University, Vancouver, Vancouver
• Western Washington University, Bellingham

Private institutions

Two-year institutions

• School of Visual Concepts, Seattle

Private liberal arts colleges

• University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
• Walla Walla University, College Place
• Whitman College, Walla Walla
• Whitworth University, Spokane

Private colleges and universities

• Antioch University, Seattle
• Argosy University/Seattle, Seattle
• The Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle
• Bastyr University, Seattle
• City University of Seattle, Bellevue
• Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle
• DeVry University
• Bellevue
• Federal Way
• DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond
• Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, Tacoma
• Gonzaga University, Spokane
• Heritage College, Toppenish
• Northwest Theological Seminary, Lynwood
• Northwest University, Kirkland
• Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland
• St. Martin’s University, Lacey
• Seattle Bible College, Seattle
• Seattle Pacific University, Seattle
• Seattle University, Seattle
• MatteRicci College, Seattle
• Trinity Lutheran College, Everett