CVB Wins Readers’ Choice Award - Noted "Best of the Best" by ConventionSouth Readers

SOUTHERN PINES, NC – JANUARY 18, 2005 – The Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area Convention & Visitors Bureau has been recognized by the readers of ConventionSouth as the "Best of the Best" in the magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards.

"The Readers’ Choice Award is an honor because it’s an acknowledgement that our efforts and assistance are recognized and appreciated by meeting planners," said Beverly Stewart, Director of Sales for the Convention & Visitors Bureau. "Our CVB is dedicated to attracting and assisting meeting planners who might be interested in bringing a variety of groups to our area. We provide prompt and extensive services from a central contact for accommodations proposals to site inspections for planners, even supplying welcome packets for attendees or helping promote their event."

In 2004, per ConventionSouth, the magazine asked their 16,000 readers to "nominate those convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs), convention centers, hotels, resorts and other sites they feel display exemplary creativity and professionalism for ConventionSouth’s inaugural Readers’ Choice Awards." The magazine’s readers are meeting planners who plan events such as meetings, conventions and seminars in the South.

"We’re here to help make the meeting planner’s job easier and to assist in insuring their event is as successful as possible," Stewart added. "This ‘Best of the Best’ recognition helps us know we’re doing something right."

For more information on how the Convention & Visitors Bureau for the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area can assist meeting planners, contact Beverly Stewart at (910) 692-3330 or (800) 346-5362. Also, visit the Web site at www.homeofgolf.com for other services and information the CVB offers.

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The Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is an economic development organization and non-profit authority of Moore County, North Carolina. The CVB mission is to promote the area as a destination for visitors, meetings, conventions and tours. The CVB is funded primarily by a three percent hotel / motel room occupancy tax paid by visitors to Moore County.