National Active Retirement Association (NARA)

CHARLOTTE, NC (October 6, 2010) – Horry (Myrtle Beach) and Beaufort Counties stack up as the two most popular South Carolina retirement counties, according to a NARA analysis of SC driver's license records from 2002 through this month. 888.742.7362

CHARLOTTE, NC (Oct. 6, 2010) – The erosion of Florida’s famed resort retirement industry has helped pack up and send almost 40,000 people aged 55+ into North Carolina from Florida this decade and close to half of those transplants are aged 65+.

Tom Mann of Baltimore, an authority on retirement community marketing and a top 55+ marketer, will be a featured speaker at the National Active Retirement Community (NARA) Business Conference in Columbia, SC Oct. 20-22 (www.retirementlivingnews.com).

One of the world's top tourism experts, Dr. Simon Hudson, the Endowed Chair at the Center of Economic Excellence in Tourism at the USC, believes travel and tourism professionals should refocus and target travelers 55+. He calls them "Zoomers"

Can Social Security survive? Few people understand the facts more than Dr. Joe Gribbin of the Erickson School of Aging. He'll present the facts at the 2010 NARA Retirement Conference in Columbia, SC Oct. 20 (www.retirementlivingnews.com).

Dr. John Cromartie, a leading expert in rural economic development through retiree attraction, will discuss how regions can attract retiree wealth at the NARA Retirement Conference in Columbia, SC October 20-22 (www.retirementlivingnews.com).

Strategies on how to position and market a community to 55+ retirees will be one of the topics at the 11th Annual NARA “Power Tools” business conference to be held Oct. 20-22 at the Columbia, SC Convention Center (www.retirementlivingnews.com).

Colin Milner, one of the world’s leading experts on "how we age" and future implications for organizations will be a featured speaker at the (NARA) 11th Annual Business Conference in Columbia, SC October 20-22 (www.retirementlivingnews.com).

The National Active Retirement Association (NARA) and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) will be collaborating to offer 55+ business classes and educational seminars the entire week of Oct. 18-22 in Columbia, SC.

National Active Retirement Association Director Dan Owens was quoted in an article about retiree attraction in the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer about 55+ consumers.