Visitors Bureau of Highland County receives statewide marketing award
Jamie Wheeler, Executive Director of the Visitors Bureau of Highland County, accepted RUBY Awards during the recent Ohio Travel Association’s RUBY Awards presentation. The organization received a RUBY Award for website, Citation of Excellence for radio advertisement and was a finalist in the print media category with a rack card about hiking trails. (Submitted photo)
Visitors Bureau of Highland County recently received recognition for achievement in marketing and advertising at the Ohio Travel Association’s RUBY Awards presentation, held Oct. 3 at Renaissance in Toledo.
Visitors Bureau of Highland County received a RUBY Award for Website and a Citation of Excellence for Radio Advertisement. Accepting the award was Jamie Wheeler, Executive Director of the Visitors Bureau of Highland County. Highland County was also a finalist in the Print Media category.
The Ohio Travel Association’s RUBY Awards recognize excellence in Ohio’s hospitality and tourism industry for efforts in advertising, marketing and public relations.
In this year’s competition, the Recognizing Uncommon Brilliance Yearly (RUBY) Awards had 220 entries in 17 categories. The awards, sponsored by Ohio Magazine, were presented during the Ohio Conference on Travel, the state’s tourism conference for all sectors of the tourism industry.
Nine marketing professionals representing academia, consulting firms and ad agencies judged each entry on the basis of overall concept, results and creativity.
The Ohio Travel Association is a nonprofit trade association representing travel and tourism-related businesses throughout the state. For more information on OTA, visit www.ohiotravel.org.
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