ACVB Awards
ACVB continues to win prestigious awards for outstanding work in convention services, marketing, advertising and public relations.
Convention Services Awards
The ACVB has won prestigious awards from five respected national convention trade publications:
Gold Service Award Meetings & Conventions magazine
- 1985, 1994-1999 & 2004-2007 The Gold Service Award Program honors convention and visitors bureaus that have excelled in professionalism and dedication in their service to meeting professionals. The award is voted on by subscribers who are corporate and association meeting/convention planners
Award of Excellence Corporate & Incentive Travel magazine
- 2001, 2004-2007 Corporate & Incentive Travel’s Award of Excellence designates convention and visitors bureaus that best served corporate meetings and/or incentive travel executives/planners during the past year. Recipients are selected by a poll of the magazine’s readers.
Pinnacle Award Successful Meetings magazine
- 1996-2005 & 2007 The Pinnacle Award program has earned a reputation as the most credible and prestigious symbol of excellence.
Top Destination Award Facilities & Destinations magazine
- 2001 & 2006 The destination winners are selected through nominations by meeting/event planners and industry members. The Awards of Excellence are an annual recognition of cities and venues awarded for going above and beyond in delivering quality service to the convention/meeting industry.
2004 ACOM Executive Excellence Award
- ACVB's President/CEO Dale Lockett was awarded the 2004 Executive Excellence Award by the Association of Convention Operations Management (ACOM). The award recognizes executives who “support staff participation in ACOM and quality assurance in the organization's convention service program, personally and consistently.” The award has been recognizing outstanding executives for the past 10 years.
Inner Circle Award Association Meetings magazine
Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations Awards
Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Adrian Awards
The Adrian Awards competition recognizes outstanding advertising and public relations campaigns form the travel industry including convention and visitors bureaus, hotels, airlines, cruise lines, and car rental companies. It is the largest most prestigious award of its kind.
- 2007 Gold Adrian Award - Albuquerque Website www.itsatrip.org
- 2007 Gold Adrian Award- Albuquerque CVB Positioning Branding Campaign
- 2007 Gold Adrian Award- Albuquerque CVB Print Ad Campaign
- 2006 Bronze Adrian Award- Albuquerque Ads
2007 Gold MarCom Award for www.itsatrip.org
ACVB's website won in the Web Site Overall Category by the Association of Marketing & Communications Professionals. The MarCom Awards is an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communications professionals. The Gold Award is presented to those entries judged to exceed the high standards of the industry norm. www.marcomawards.com
NMPRSA Cumbre Awards
ACVB Communications Division has won several Cumbre Awards presented by the New Mexico Public Relations Society of America. The Cumbre Awards honor excellence in public relations throughout the state of New Mexico. Awards are presented for exceptional public relations campaigns and tactics.
- 2007 Cumbre Awards:
Best in Show: Albuquerque Tricentennial Campaign
Cumbere Gold: Albuquerque Tricentennial Campaign
Cumbre Gold: ACVB Business Cards and Letterhead
Cumbre Silver: Destination Master Plan Development
Cumbre Silver: ACVB Two-Year Marketing Plan
Cumbre Silver: Rack brochures – Multi-languages
Cumbre Silver: Convention Sales Invitation for November Meeting Planner Luncheon
- 2006 Cumbre Awards:
Cumbre Gold: ACVB Two-Year Marketing Plan
Cumbre Silver: Albuquerque Media Kit
Cumbre Silver: ACVB Advertorial
Cumbre Silver: ACVB 25th Anniversary Celebration Booklet
- 2005 Cumbre Awards:
Cumbre Gold: ASAE Annual Convention Albuquerque Pre-Mailer
Cumbre Gold: ACVB Two-Year Marketing Plan
Cumbre Bronze: ACVB 2004 Travel Planner Guide
- 2004 Cumbre Awards:
Cumbre Silver: 2003 Albuquerque Film Directory
Cumbre Bronze: ACVB's News & Views Newsletter
Cumbre Bronze: 2003-2004 ACVB Marketing Plan
- 2003 Cumbre Awards:
Cumbre Gold: 2002 Albuquerque Film Directory
- 2002 Cumbre Awards:
Cumbre Gold: ACVB Official Albuquerque Press Kit
Cumbre Silver: ACVB Annual Report and Marketing Plan
Cumbre Silver: 2001 Albuquerque Film Directory
- 2001 Cumbre Awards:
Cumbre Bronze: ACVB 1999-2000 Annual Report
ADDY Awards
Each year, the New Mexico Advertising Federation recognizes Albuquerque's best creative work at the ADDY Awards Ceremony. The following awards were awarded to ACVB's ad agency, McKee Wallwork Cleveland
See the ads at Photos & Videos: ACVB's Ads
- 2006 Gold ADDY Award: ACVB Tin Ad
- 2006 Silver ADDY Award: ACVB Leather Ad
- 2005 Silver ADDY Award: Planner Products website/video
In 2003, McKee Wallwork Henderson won four ADDY Awards on behalf of ACVB:
- 2003 Judge's Choice Award (one of the top five awards): It's a Trip® Poster
- 2003 ADDY: Collateral Material/Poster/ Single - It's a Trip® Poster
- 2003 ADDY: Trade Publication/Campaign/Four- Color - It's a Trip® ads
- 2003 ADDY: Newspaper/campaign/black & white It's a Trip® - Team Up campaign aimed at locals to bring meetings to Albuquerque
2007 TANM President's Award
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Tania Armenta, ACVB's Vice President of Tourism and Communications was presented the 2007 TANM President's Award from the Tourism Association of New Mexico for her contributions to the tourism industry and work on the Governors Conference.
TANM Tiara Awards
The Tourism Association of New Mexico launched the Tiara Awards at the 2004 New Mexico Governor's Conference on Tourism. The Tiara awards honor outstanding tourism marketing activities in 2004 ACVB won two of the Tiara awards:
- 2006 Most Successful Public Relations Effort-Tricentennial Promotion
- 2006 Tiara Award: Best Print Advertising-Tricentennial Ad Campaign
- 2006 Tiara Award: Best Brochure-ACVB Rack Brochure (in 3 languages)
- 2004 Best Web Site- for www.itsatrip.org
- 2004 Most Successful Public Relations Effort- for the work ACVB staff did to coordinate the Society of American Travel Writers Conference held in May 2003 with 50 freelance travel writers spending a week in Albuquerque.
2004 ASAE Best in Show Award
- Albuquerque's booth won the American Society of Association Executives 2004 "Best in Show" exhibit contest. ASAE, the largest association tradeshow of its kind, created the exhibit contest to generate excitement. One judge described Albuquerque's booth as "beautiful, welcoming and instantly recognizable."
2003 NCDO Destiny Award
- ACVB was honored with the 2003 Destiny Award for the "Albuquerque...It's a trip®" campaign created by ACVB's advertising agency, McKee Wallwork Henderson. The ACVB campaign was awarded in the marketing programs category for excellence in destination marketing. The Destiny Awards are presented by the National Council of Destination Organizations (NCDO), an industry council of the Travel Industry Association of America. The judges were impressed with the use of solid research from the beginning planning stages to measuring the final results. An additional strong factor was the use of the clever creative in all advertising mediums for a completely integrated campaign.
2003 IACVB Idea Fair Award
- The team-up campaign won first place at the 2003 International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureau's Idea Fair in the Community Awareness/Government Relations category.