Montana Promotion Division
2008 Montana Governor's Conference
on Tourism and Recreation- Awards
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.
Next Conference: March 30-31, 2009, Red Lion Colonial Hotel, Helena, MT
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 34th 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 click here or 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
- 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
- Tourism Person of the Year- Jay Robson
- Tourism Community of the Year- Fort Benton
- Tourism Event of the Year- Lady Cameron Heritage Celebration & PBS Premiere, Terry, MT
- Tourism Partnership of the Year- Cooke City, Friends of the Beartooth All American Road, City of Red lodge and Red Lodge Chamber of Commerce
- Tourism Person of the Year- Dr. Joesph Medicine Crow
- Tourism Community of the Year- Livingston
- Tourism Event of the Year- Augusta American Legion Rodeo
- Tourism Partnership of the Year- Great Falls CVB & Russell Country
- Tourism Person of the Year- Christopher Kortlander
- Tourism Community of the Year- Malta
- Tourism Event of the Year- 36th Annual C.M. Russell Auction of Original Western Art
- Tourism Parntership of the Year- 2003 Fire Season Media Task Force
- Diane Brandt from Glasgow Named Volunteer Tourism Person of the Year
- Glacier Country's Linda Anderson Named Tourism Industry Person of the Year
- Bigfork Chosen Tourism Community of the Year
- Utica's "What the Hay" Contest Chosen Tourism Event of the Year
- Half Moon Ranch Cattle Drive and Montana Farm Bureau Receive the New Tourism Partnership Award
- Tourism Person of the Year - Don Sorensen, Virgelle
- Regional Award - Terry Zee Lee, Billings
- Community of the Year - Hardin
- Tourism Person of the Year - Gayle Fisher, Great Falls
- Community of the Year - Lewistown
- Special Recognition Award - Jack Clarkson, West Yellowstone; Roy Snyder, Fort Peck
- Tourism Person of the Year - Lisa Perry, Billings; Connie Kenney, Butte
- Regional Awards - Mike Art, Pray; Stan Meyer, Great Falls; Rich Pittsley, Billings; Jeri Mae Rowley, Kalispell
- Community of the Year - Billings
- Special Recognition Award - Carl Kochman, Great Falls
- Tourism Person of the Year - Jim VanArsdale, Billings
- Regional Awards - Dr. Arnold "Arnie" Olsen, Helena; John "Jack" Lepley, Fort Benton; Mary Tietjen, Great Falls
- Community of the Year - Broadus
- Joan Gentri Award - Edythe McCleary, Hardin
- Tourism Person of the Year - Gloria Wester, Laurel
- Regional Awards; Eric Heyn, Eureka; Shirley Beck & Dale Siegford, Philipsburg; Tim Prather, Red Lodge; Jane Weber, Great Falls
- Community of the Year - Philipsburg
- Joan Gentri Award - Lorri Reeder
- Tourism Person of the Year - Maureen Averill, Bigfork
- Regional Awards - Edgar Richardson, Scobey; John Trangmoe, Glendive; Antionette (Toni) Haegner, Havre
- Tourism Person of the Year - Mike Labriola, Great Falls
- Regional Awards - Bill Bolt, Kalispell; Gerry Walter, Butte; Marge Wanner, West Yellowstone; Betty Stone, Glasgow; Sandra Hawke, Billings
- Tourism Person of the Year - Nancy Menning, ITRR
- Regional Awards- Randy Gayner, West Glacier; Vince Yannone, Helena; Stan Meyer, Great Falls; Mike Scholz, Big Sky; Shirley Legg, Malta; Joe Wilson, Forsyth
- Tourism Person of the Year - Garry Wunderwald
- Regional Awards - Sherry Billehus, Scobey; Jim Court, Hardin; Otis & Jean Robbins, Kalispell; Carl Kochman, Great Falls; Daryl Todd, Big Timber; Connie Clarke, Miles City (Superhost Recognition Award)
- Tourism Person of the Year - Elmer Frame
- Regional Awards - Jeanne French, Plentywood; Curly Bear Wagner, Browning; Henry Gehl, Lewistown; Carl Rowan, Butte; Bob McCurdy, Broadus; Patrick Gubbins, Helena
- Tourism Person of the Year- Greg Bryan
- Regional Awards- Bill Howell, West Yellowstone; Frank de Rosa, Havre; Diane Brandt, Glasgow; John Claypool, Ennis; Edythe McCleary, Hardin
- Tourism Person of the Year - Ken Hickel
- Tourism Person of the Year - Larry McRae
- Tourism Person of the Year - Herb Leuprecht
2007
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2004
2003
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