SportsEvents Media Group, the leading industry publication focused exclusively on helping sports event planners produce excellent competitions in the United States, has announced that Visit Knoxville in Knoxville, TN has been recognized as a 2019 Readers’ Choice Award winner. Award-winning destinations and venues for youth and amateur sports will be honored in the January 2019 issue of SportsEvents Magazine.
Sports event professionals were asked to nominate destinations and sports venues that they believe display exemplary creativity and professionalism toward the youth and amateur sports groups they host. Nominations were received from readers beginning in early September and the top picks were selected based on results from an online voting system. A record number of votes were cast for the annual contest. Final voting concluded on, Nov. 9, 2018, at 4:59 p.m.
This is the eleventh year for the SportsEvents Readers’ Choice Award. Votes were also cast for Sports Events Planners to Watch and Sports Events to Watch. “The destinations and venues nominated for this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards are outstanding examples of how sports commissions and CVBs provide exemplary service to youth and amateur sporting events,” said Sherri Middleton, Managing Editor. “It is my honor to recognize Visit Knoxville as a 2019 Destination winner,” Middleton said.
ABOUT SPORTSEVENTS MEDIA GROUP
SportsEvents Media Group, the publisher of SportsEvents magazine, is the industry leader in providing products and services designed to connect sports events organizers with sports commissions, CVBs, hotels, insurance companies and other sports events industry suppliers.
The sports events industry’s only true multi-media company unites sports event buyers and suppliers with the leading monthly magazine (SportsEvents), online (www.sportseventsmagazine.com), through social media, and with face-to-face conferences and trade shows—S.P.O.R.T.S. – The Relationship Conference.
ABOUT COVEY COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
Founded and owned by J. Talty O’Connor, Covey Communications Corp. is a multimedia company that publishes nationally distributed magazines for targeted markets. In addition to SportsEvents Magazine and its ancillary titles, Covey Communications Corp. also publishes ConventionSouth, the leading publication and website in the United States for meeting and convention planners who book events in the South; Condo Owner, serving the Alabama and Northwest Florida Gulf Coast; and Crossties, an internationally known railroad industry publication.
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