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Montana Governor's Conference
on Tourism and Recreation- Awards

2009 Montana Governor’s Conference on Tourism and Recreation
Dates: March 30-31, 2009
Location: Red Lion Colonial Hotel, 2301 Colonial Drive, Helena, MT 59601, 406-443-2100 or 6704, 1-800-325-4000, www.redlion.com

Montana Tourism Awards
The Governor's Tourism Advisory Council (TAC) accepts nominations each year for the Montana Tourism Awards -- Tourism Person of the Year, Tourism Community of the Year, Tourism Event of the Year and Partnership of the Year. The deadline to receive 2009 award nominations will be determined in early 2009.
The awards recognize individuals, events, or communities whose efforts to promote or develop Montana's tourism opportunities, this year or for a series of years, have preserved or enhanced tourism's role in Montana's economy.

The award winners will be announced at the 35th Annual Governor's Conference on Tourism and Recreation scheduled for April March 30-31, 2009 at the Red Lion Colonial Hotel.

For more information about the nomination schedule and forms, contact:
Barbara Sanem
Industry Program/Compliance specialist
406-841-2769
bsanem@mt.gov

The Montana Tourism Awards Nomination Form is presented in

.pdf format. To view the documents, you need Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™ installed on your computer. To download the latest version of Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™, please on the following icon:

Previous Montana Tourism Award Honorees

2008

Tourism Person of the Year – Marysue Costello
Tourism Event of the Year – Fort Benton Summer Celebration
Tourism Partnership of the Year – West Yellowstone Winter Trail

2007

Tourism Person of the Year – Mike Sholz
Tourism Community of the Year – Roundup
Tourism Event of the Year – 75th Anniversary Montana State Fair – MT Expo Park, Great Falls, MT
Tourism Partnership of the Year – Montana Dinosaur Trail: Carter County Museum, Ekalaka, MT; Makoshika Dinosaur Museum and Makoshika State Park, Glendive, MT; Garfield County Museum, Jordan, MT; Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Fort Peck Field Station of Paleontology, Fort Peck, MT; Phillips County Museum and Dinosaur Field Station, Malta, MT; Blaine County Museum, Chinook, MT; H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum, Havre, MT; Depot Museum, Rudyard, MT; Upper Musselshell Museum, Harlowton, MT; Two Medicine Dinosaur Center, Bynum, MT; Old Trail Museum, Choteau, MT; Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT; Custer Country; Missouri River Country; Russell Country; Yellowstone Country; Bozeman CVB; Malta Chamber of Commerce; Parks Division, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks; Montana BLM; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Fort Peck Lake; Travel Montana

2009 CONFERENCE SPONSORS

Platinum Level

Glacier Park, Inc.	Montana State Parks & Jack Gladstone
Sapphire Gallery/Sweet Palace	Meredith Travel Marketing

Gold Level

Certified Folder Display Service, Inc.	Montana Innkeepers Association	Yellowstone National Park Lodges/Xanterra
Travel Industry Association of Montana	Outside Magazine	Geo Consensus
Mercury Advertising