Northstar Meetings Group and its leading brands, Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings, today announced the 2019 recipients of the 3rd Annual Stella Awards. 
A total of 278 organizations from around the globe were honored for consistently delivering quality service and innovation to meeting and event professionals. The list of winners, finalists and their profiles can be found at NorthstarMeetingsGroup.com/
Visit Oakland, among other DMOs in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, was recognized as the Best CVB/DMO in its region. The Visit Oakland team combined sales and marketing initiatives to deliver consistent quality service and innovation within the meeting and professional event space and won in the competitive category.
Nearly 10,000 votes were cast from around the world for the 508 destinations, hotels and service providers nominated in 18 categories in six regions in the United States and worldwide, spotlighting the very best hotels, convention centers, conference centers, convention and visitor bureaus, destination marketing organizations, destination management companies, airlines, and cruise lines. Winners were recognized for achieving overall excellence, superb food and beverage, professionalism of staff, technology innovations, and other critical aspects of the meetings and event experience.
”Congratulations to this year’s winners for being recognized by such a broad community of planners, and then by our judges. They set a standard all suppliers in our industry seek to achieve,” said Loren Edelstein, vice president, and content director for Northstar Meetings Group. “A Stella Award is the finest symbol of excellence for suppliers in the meetings industry.”
“The real value of the Stellas is not just to those who are being recognized for their excellence, but to the tens of thousands of other planners who look to their peers for recommendations and advice,” said David Blansfield, executive vice president and group publisher, Northstar Meetings Group. “The Stellas provide an objective, curated, and credible majority view on the best of the best in the meetings industry.”
“We are honored to be recognized with the 2019 Stella Award in the Best CVB/DMO category, Far West Region,” says Mark Everton, CEO of Visit Oakland. “With this accreditation, Visit Oakland will continue its commitment to industry excellence, and making a positive economic impact for the Oakland community.”
After nominations closed in April 2019, finalists in each category were determined by meeting planners during an open voting period during which nearly 10,000 unique votes were tallied. Winners were then selected by an expert panel of judges overseen by the editors of Northstar Meetings Group’s leading brands, Meetings & Conventions, and Successful Meetings.
To discover this year’s Stella Award winners or to learn more about the awards program, please visit NorthstarMeetingsGroup.
To nominate your organization for a 2020 Stella Award, visit the Stella Awards website Stella-Awards.com and submit your entry by March 20, 2020. Organizations must enter to be eligible and may submit nominations in any relevant categories.
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