Visit Eau Claire, the area's official tourism marketing organization has been recognized by five elite awards for the website's personality, style and setting a mark for travel marketing: 2020 Hermes Creative Award (Gold in Website Category), Internet Advertising Competition Award (Outstanding Website), 2020 Communicator Award of Distinction (Tourism & Travel), 2020 AVA Digital Award (Tourism Website), 2019 W3 Award (Silver in Tourism Website Category), 2019 dotCOMM Award (Gold Winner in Travel Website Category), and 2019 Davey Award (Gold in Website/Travel Category).
2020 Hermes Creative Award - Gold in Website Category
The Hermes Creative Website Award acknowledges excellent websites on their merit with no added explanations or materials. With over hundreds of global entries. VisitEauClaire.com was awarded on a gold level among prestigious internet marketing competitors.
2020 Internet Advertising Competition Outstanding Website
The Outstanding Website Award from the 2020 Internet Advertising Competition recognizes the excellence of a team behind a website that well-known for brilliant web-advertising. This award celebrates the best of the best marketing strategists from 97 industries across 9 different platforms.
2020 Communicator Award of Distinction in Tourism & Travel Category
The Award of Distinction highlights excellence in tourism marketing websites and recognizes top-tier unique content that leaves a lasting impression. Visit Eau Claire was among 6,000 entries in a tight competition. Other winners of the award included ESPN Films, Forbes Media, PepsiCo and others.
2020 AVA Digital Award in Tourism Website Category
AVA Digital Awards is an international competition that recognizes outstanding creativity and work in the content creation for media as an evolving form of communication. Among 2,500 entries, 21 percent received gold level awards including Visit Eau Claire.
2019 W3 Award - Silver in Tourism Website Category
W3 Awards celebrate digital excellence found in exceptional websites, apps, and other digital marketing tools. Visit Eau Claire was selected among the best interactive agencies, creators and designers worldwide from small local businesses to Fortune 500 companies.
2019 dotCOMM Gold Winner in Travel Website Category
The dotCOMM awards recognize excellence in web creativity and digital marketing. This award signified that Visit Eau Claire's website is one of the best in the industry in digital tourism marketing.
2019 Gold Davey Award in Website/Travel Category
The Gold Davey Award is specific to small agencies that have distinct creative work that is out of this world. It honors the follow-through of creative ideas by a small team of like-minded individuals.