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135+ DCVB Best Practice Accolades

First destination marketing organization (DMO) in NC and among the first 24 out of more than 1,000 DMOs in North America accredited to new international standards and best practices in community marketing and promotion.
Awarded a high of 11 exemplary citations during accreditation review and one additional exemplary citation during the accreditation renewal.
13 Platinum and Gold & 5 Honorable Mention MarCom Creative Awards in the international competition for marketing and communications professionals.
68 Destination Marketing Achievement Awards (36 Best Practice Innovation awards) in “blind” statewide judging.
DCVB President & CEO Shelly Green received the NCTIA Public Service Award in Honor of Bill Sharpe in recognition of outstanding contributions to the development and promotion of NC's travel industry.
Earned Green Plus Certification from the Institute for Sustainable Development.
DCVB President Emeritus Reyn Bowman and CEO Shelly Green have each received the Barentine Special Achievement Award for significant contributions toward state and national tourism initiatives.
DCVB President Emeritus Reyn Bowman received a 2009 Winner’s Circle Award for significant contributions to the success of North Carolina’s tourism industry.
Good Neighbor Award given by The InterNeighborhood Council of Durham.
Twice rated #1 website out of the 1,032 destination websites in North America.
Seal of Excellence Award from ConventionBureaus.com.
Best on the Net Award from Zeitgeist.
Goodmon Award for regional initiatives.
Six-time featured panelists for best practices at the national level.
Multi-year winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.
Webby Awards Worthy Selection as a website that demonstrates a standard of excellence.
One of only three CVB’s in the country selected as a case study for the book, “Guide to Best Practices in Tourism and Destination Management.”
Rated “8 on a scale of one to 10,” or significantly exceeds expectations on an anonymous Community Stakeholder Survey of 500 Durham civic & business leaders.
Awarded Readers’ Choice Awards in 2005 and 2006 by convention and meeting planner readers of ConventionSouth magazine.
Rated in top 5% of similar organizations (“8.7% on a scale of 1 to 10) in yearlong, in-depth performance diagnostic by Performance Management, Inc.
1st place Booth at the Mid-Year Meeting and Trade Show for Association Executives of North Carolina.
eMarketing Association Site of the Year Award.
Web Marketing Association’s WebAward Competition Standard of Excellence.
www.durham-nc.com placed in the five destination sites in the U.S. in the Tourism Destination Website Comparative Study done by Randall Travel Marketing and U.S. Destination Marketing.
Overarching Durham brand included as best practice case study in the book Destination Branding for Small Cities.
Top two executives seated on two of the three international boards of directors for destination marketing organizations.
Used as accreditation best practice in Nation’s Cities Weekly, the publication of the National League of Cities.
Succession plan recognized as "best practice" by national association.
DCVB President Emeritus Reyn Bowman was given the Golden Leaf Award for Individual Contributions by the Durham City-County Appearance Commission.
Ranked by CEO Update in Top Places to Work in nonprofits.
DCVB Director of Group Sales and Services, Corey Bizzell, recognized as "Supplier of the Year" by Meetings Professional International, Carolinas Chapter.