The Mississippi Tourism Association (MTA) presented their annual awards for tourism achievement for the year 2016 during activities at the Governor\u2019s Conference on Tourism held at the Natchez Convention Center in Natchez, Miss. on Sept. 18-20, 2016.<\/p>\n
The awards program recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of tourism by members of the 300+-member private sector organization as well as honoring travel media, community leaders and friends of the industry. Awards were presented in 15 categories, each focusing on a different aspect of the hospitality industry or individual achievement.<\/p>\n
Receiving the award for Travel Attraction of the Year was\u00a0GRAMMY Museum\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Mississippi. The\u00a0Museum\u00a0was cited for being the only GRAMMY Museum outside of Los Angeles, which is home to the\u00a0first GRAMMY Museum. The Museum features\u00a0cutting-edge exhibits, interactive experiences and films, which provide a one-of-a-kind visitor experience \u2014 engaging, educational, celebratory and inspirational.\u00a0In just 4 months after opening the Museum\u00a0has brought visitors from 41 states as well as tourists from over 16 countries. More information about GRAMMY Museum Mississippi can be found at\u00a0www.grammymuseumms.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSpecial recognition should be given to our tourism industry leaders for their outstanding accomplishments. We are happy to have the opportunity to honor the winners of these awards as we truly appreciate their dedication not only to our organization but to the entire tourism industry,\u201d said Wesley Smith, 2016-2017 president of MTA.<\/p>\n For more information on MTA or Mississippi tourism, visit\u00a0www.visitmissisippi.org<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.mstourism.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mississippi Tourism Association (MTA) presented their annual awards for tourism achievement for the year 2016 during activities at the Governor\u2019s Conference on Tourism held at the Natchez Convention Center…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":72126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-3","category-grammy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72130,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72125\/revisions\/72130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}