{"id":38190,"date":"2022-12-13T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=38190"},"modified":"2022-12-13T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:53:47","slug":"tourism-group-discover-saratoga-honored-at-northstar-meetings-group-stella-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2022\/12\/tourism-group-discover-saratoga-honored-at-northstar-meetings-group-stella-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Group \u2018Discover Saratoga\u2019 Honored At Northstar Meetings Group Stella Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38191\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/12\/discover-saratoga-grp-hc-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/12\/discover-saratoga-grp-hc-sm.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/12\/discover-saratoga-grp-hc-sm-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/12\/discover-saratoga-grp-hc-sm-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darryl Leggieri, president of Discover Saratoga, poses with staff in the group\u2019s Saratoga Springs offices. The organization was awarded a Stella Award for its outstanding promotional work.<br \/>\u00a92022 Saratoga Photographer.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Discover Saratoga was honored by the Northstar Meetings Group at the organization\u2019s sixth annual Stella Awards.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Discover Saratoga was named a bronze winner in the Northeast category for Best CVB\/DMO.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Stella Awards are the meeting industry\u2019s highest honor, recognizing hotels, convention centers, conference centers, airlines, cruise lines, DMOs\/CVBs and DMCs that consistently deliver quality service and innovation to meeting and event professionals.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 220 organizations from around the globe are honored for consistently delivering quality service and innovation to meeting and event professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat an honor,\u201d said Darryl Leggieri, president of Discover Saratoga. \u201cWe are thrilled to be recognized as one of the top Convention and Tourism Bureaus in the industry. We\u2019re so grateful to our hospitality partners for their service, and for making Saratoga Springs a popular destination for meetings and events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\"><b><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\"><!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>This year, nearly 6,000 votes were cast from around the world for the 561 destinations, hotels and service providers nominated in 16 categories across six regions in the United States and worldwide. Winners were selected for achieving overall excellence, superb food and beverage, professionalism of staff, sustainability initiatives, and other critical aspects of the meetings and event experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to all of the 2022 Stella Award winners and finalists,\u201d said Loren Edelstein, vice president and content director for Northstar Meetings Group. \u201cThe strong resurgence we\u2019re now seeing in meetings in the U.S. and around the world indicates meetings are back. And this year\u2019s honorees demonstrate they\u2019re not only back, but they\u2019re better than ever. Thank you to the 2022 Stella Award winners for demonstrating their commitment to excellence in meetings, incentives, conferences, and events.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Discover Saratoga, known as the Saratoga Convention &amp; Tourism Bureau, is a key economic development engine for this community; our mission is to contribute a positive impact on the local economy by promoting and marketing Saratoga Springs and Saratoga County as a world-class destination for meetings, conventions, and groups.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information about Discover Saratoga, visit discoversaratoga.org.<\/p>\n<p>Northstar Meetings Group is the leading B2B information and marketing solutions company serving all segments of the business meetings, events, sports, and incentives market, including full- and part-time meeting planners, as well as corporate, association, sports and not-for-profit decision-makers, and incentive professionals, facilitating their professional development and achievement of business goals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s influential brands\u2014Meetings &amp; Conventions, Successful Meetings, Associations Meetings International, Meetings &amp; Incentive Travel, Meeting News, Incentive and SportsTravel\u2014currently serve over 500,000 active meeting and event planners and incentive professionals, across an integrated suite of data, digital, events and print products. For more information, visit NorthstarMeetingsGroup.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover Saratoga was honored by the Northstar Meetings Group at the organization\u2019s sixth annual Stella Awards.\u00a0 Discover Saratoga was named a bronze winner in the Northeast category for Best CVB\/DMO.\u00a0 The Stella Awards are the meeting industry\u2019s highest honor, recognizing hotels, convention centers, conference centers, airlines, cruise lines, DMOs\/CVBs and DMCs that consistently deliver quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":38191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Tourism Group \u2018Discover Saratoga\u2019 Honored At Northstar Meetings Group Stella Awards - 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