Visit Tyler and SPORTyler win awards at annual conference

TYLER – This week, Visit Tyler and SPORTyler were presented with awards at the 2021 Texas Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus (TACVB) Annual Conference. To win the awards, the staff competed against destination marketing organizations from across Texas to position Tyler as a premier visitor destination, according to a news release. Officials say this was done by implementing new marketing and promotions to bring more publicity and tourism to the community.

The programs that won the awards were:

People’s Choice Awards

-Sports Marketing, The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Virtual Ceremony – First Place

-Website – First Place

-Cooperative Marketing – First Place

-Convention Promotion – First Place

-Pandemic Recovery – Second Place

-Local Awareness – Third Place