<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Colorado Tourism Office Recognized as “Best US State Tourism Bureau” at Inaugural Travvy Awards</h3>DENVER (February 2, 2015). The Colorado Tourism Office is pleased to announce its recent recognition as the “Best US State Tourism Bureau” at the annual Travvy Awards, presented by travAlliancemedia. The Travvy Awards recognizes the highest standards of excellence in the travel industry and honors travel companies, travel products, travel agencies and destinations for their outstanding achievement.“We are very excited to be recognized by the travel agent community as the top state tourism office in the nation,” said Al White, director of the Colorado Tourism Office. “This award says a lot about the effectiveness of our marketing, the friendliness of our tourism industry in welcoming travelers and working with travel agents as well as Colorado as an extremely desirable destination for visitors.”The ballot of award nominees was sent to the travel agent readers of TravelPulse.com, Agent@Home magazine and Vacation Agent magazine, representing a combined readership of close to 100,000. 30,000 travel agents voted on the winners."Our travel agent readers recognized Colorado as the best state tourism bureau," said James Shillinglaw, editor in chief of travAlliancemedia, publishers of TravelPulse.com, Agent@Home magazine and Vacation.com magazine. 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