Winner’s Circle Tourism Awards

2025 Winner’s Circle Tourism Award Categories

NOMINATE YOUR HOSPITALITY CHAMPIONS!

Help us recognize and celebrate the hundreds of dedicated tourism professionals who provide exceptional customer service and ensure our visitors create special memories with their families and friends throughout their time here.

With special tourism-related award categories, scroll down and find which category your favorite tourism champion falls into and then nominate them before March 1, 2025.

Then, join us in May 2025 as we recognize our local tourism industry champions and unveil new tourism-related information at the Tourism Insights Program in celebration of National Tourism & Travel Week. Event’s location, date and time to be announced.

To nominate individuals for this year’s Winner’s Circle Tourism Awards, first, review the Winner’s Circle Tourism Awards Rules & Guidelines. Please review the rules and guidelines before you begin.


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Restaurant Service Champion

This award recognizes the restaurant staff member who provides exemplary service to guests and uses their own imagination as well as resources at the restaurant to enhance the guest experience.

Attraction Service Champion
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Hotel Service Champion

This award is designed to recognize the hotel, motel, vacation rental or resort employee that repeatedly goes above and beyond to make every guest feel special. This is the person that guests remember and ask for by name.

Hotel Service Champion
Attraction Service Champion
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Attraction Service Champion

This award recognizes an attraction employee that repeatedly goes above and beyond to make every guest feel special. This is the person that guests remember and ask for by name.

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Rising Star Champion

This award category recognizes the newest individual on your hotel, attraction, retail or tourism-focused business team who is always willing to give time, talent, imagination and resources to create the ideal environment leading to the ultimate guest experience.

Rising Star Champion
Volunteer Champion
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Volunteer Champion

This award category recognizes the newest individual on your hotel, attraction, retail or tourism-focused business team who is always willing to give time, talent, imagination and resources to create the ideal environment leading to the ultimate guest experience.

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Innovation Champion

This award category recognizes an individual or team that used imagination, creativity and innovation to enhance how their organization works and, ultimately, how this innovation resulted in attracting new or repeat guests and customers.

Innovation Champion
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Humanitarian Champion

This award recognizes the contribution of an individual, a team, business or organization in the Highlands County tourism industry for service in aiding and assisting others.

Humanitarian Champion
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Sports Tourism Champion

This award recognizes the contribution of an individual, team, event, business or organization in the Highlands County sports tourism industry.

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