Tourism Awards Rules & Information

Winner’s Circle Tourism Awards Rules & Information

Nominations must be submitted to the awards page by March 1, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. deadline. Nominations not entered into the online system will NOT be accepted and cannot be read by the judges.

Please make sure the events, occurrences, or comments that justify your nomination took place between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024. Only current award period nominations are eligible.

We ask for a high-resolution, headshot-style photo of each nominee for promotional purposes. Please be sure to upload an in-focus photo that shows the smiling face of your nominee.

Remember that a Winner’s Circle Tourism Award is about exceeding expectations and our tourism and hospitality workers being tourism ambassadors who go above and beyond their typical, everyday duties. Through their performance and actions, they are creating situations that result in happy, grateful, surprised and delighted guests that can’t wait to return to the Sebring area. These guests are so wowed they want to tell the world how wonderful that special person is that they met during their vacation. They are also people who make the operation of your tourism-related business better, faster, friendlier, more efficient, etc. so that your property is much more pleasing to your guests and your staff thoroughly enjoys coming to work each day.

Be sure your nominations are well-written and provide specific examples of what makes the nominee outstanding and how they encourage positive views of the destination. Describe with specific examples of how they think outside the box and exceed expectations.

Please read the Tips for Nominators document for more hints and examples.

Be sure to invite and bring all your nominees to the Tourism Awards Presentation, held in May 2025 – date, time and location to be announced.