Awards & Recognitions

First destination marketing organization (DMO) in NC and among the first 24 out of morethan 1,000 DMOs in North America accredited to new international standards and best practices in community marketing and promotion.

7 Platinum and Gold MarCom & 2 Honorable Mention Creative Awards in international competitions for marketing and communications professionals.

48 Destination Marketing Achievement Awards including 24 Best Practice Innovation Awards in “blind” statewide judging.

Shelly Green, COO and Reyn Bowman, CEO have each received the Barentine Special Achievement Award for significant contributions toward state and national tourism initiatives.

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

Five-time featured panelists for best practices at the national level.

National 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.
DCVB received an Excellence award from Destination Marketing Association International in recognition of 100% compliance in reporting meeting and event histories.

Additionally, www.durham-nc.com placed in the top five destination sites in the U.S. in the Tourism Destination Website Comparative Study done by Randall Travel Marketing and U.S. Destination Marketing. The study rated sites on search engine optimization, site navigation and content, quality assurance, and technical interface.