{"id":124200,"date":"2022-11-03T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=124200"},"modified":"2022-11-02T21:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:51:44","slug":"visit-oxford-is-honored-with-conventionsouths-annual-readers-choice-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/visit-oxford-is-honored-with-conventionsouths-annual-readers-choice-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Oxford Is Honored With ConventionSouth\u2019s Annual Readers\u2019 Choice Award\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is with great honor that the publishers and editors of <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/conventionsouth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ConventionSouth<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, the national multimedia resource for planning events in the South, present <strong>Visit Oxford<\/strong> with a 2022 Readers\u2019 Choice Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>ConventionSouth <\/em>readers and fans have voted to decide the best meeting sites in the South, and it is no surprise to us that Visit Oxford has been selected to receive our annual Readers\u2019 Choice Award,\u201d said <em>ConventionSouth <\/em>Associate Publisher <strong>Tiffany Burtnett<\/strong>. \u201cThe value in receiving this prestigious recognition is that it comes from the United States\u2019 top meeting professionals who hold events in the South. These planners demand the highest level of customer service and quality facilities, and they have determined that Visit Oxford indeed displays the commitment to professionalism, creativity, and service that they require.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit Oxford is among 416 convention and visitor bureaus (CVBs), meeting facilities, and hotels located across the South to receive this year\u2019s Readers\u2019 Choice Award. Throughout the year, meeting professionals nominated the meeting sites they believe provide exemplary service for group events. The nominated sites are then compiled onto an online ballot where meeting professionals and fans are asked to vote for the best of the best. With over 8,000 voters participating in the selection process and the highest social media interaction to date, this has been the most successful and engaging year yet!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since creation in 2001, this is the first time that Visit Oxford has received the award, making it an even greater honor to present the venue with a 2022 Readers\u2019 Choice Award. Visit Oxford will be featured as an award recipient in the December 2022 Awards Issue of <em>ConventionSouth <\/em>magazine. This exciting issue will also showcase some of the most talented meeting professionals in the nation as <em>ConventionSouth <\/em>also presents planners with its annual \u201cMeeting Professionals To Watch\u201d designation. \u201cFeaturing peer advice and trade secrets from our Meeting Professionals to Watch in 2023, our Awards Issue is one of the most popular must-read resources within the meetings industry,\u201d Burtnett said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating 40 years as a leading meeting planning resource for Southern destinations, <em>ConventionSouth <\/em>magazine is based in <strong>Gulf Shores, Alabama<\/strong>, and is distributed to more than 18,000 meeting professionals located across the country who book events held within the South, according to Burtnett.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A complete list of award winners can be found online at:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conventionsouth.com\/2022-readers-choice-award-winners-announced\/\">https:\/\/conventionsouth.com\/2022-readers-choice-award-winners-announced\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great honor that the publishers and editors of ConventionSouth, the national multimedia resource for planning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":124202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23175,23176,23177,6424],"class_list":["post-124200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-conventionsouth","tag-readers-choice-award","tag-tiffany-burtnett","tag-visit-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-02-Visit-Oxford-Readers-Choice.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}