We're happy to announce the second round of finalists for this year's Ontario Tourism Awards!
The Tourism Marketing and Travel Media Awards of Excellence celebrate excellence and innovation of those who contribute to Ontario’s tourism industry through impactful tourism partnerships, marketing activities and media relations provincially, nationally and internationally.
The Culinary Tourism Awards of Excellence recognize those who work hard to tell the stories of Ontario’s growers, producers, chefs, winemakers and brewers, and their dedication to advancing the culinary tourism movement in Ontario.
The Tourism Industry Awards of Excellence (previously announced on Sept. 11) are presented to organizations, businesses and individuals that represent the quality of offerings that make Ontario a destination of choice—innovations, events, employers and the tourism champions who make it all possible.
Award winners will be announced on November 7 at the Ontario Tourism Summit in Niagara Falls.
Tourism Marketing and Travel Media Awards of Excellence (OTMPC)
Tourism Marketing Campaign Award Under 50K
Elgin County Tourism
Tourism Hamilton
Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism
Tourism Marketing Campaign Award Over 50K
Ottawa Tourism
Resorts of Ontario, Central Counties Tourism (RTO 6), BruceGreySimcoe (RTO 7) and Kawarthas Northumberland (RTO 8)
Kingston Accommodation Partners
Tourism Print Collateral Award
Tourism Timmins
Headwaters Tourism
Tourism Toronto
Tourism Digital Marketing Award
Tourism Toronto
Southwest Ontario Tourism Corporation (RTO 1)
Kingston Accommodation Partners
Tourism Marketing Partnership Award
Tourism Toronto and Air Canada
Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island
Toronto Zoo
Travel Media Story Award
Mark Stevens
Arienne Parzei
Colleen Friesen
Travel Media Photography Award
James MacDonald
Colin Field
George Fischer
Culinary Tourism Awards of Excellence (CTA)
Culinary Tourism Leadership Award
Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism
Bistro ‘67
360 The Restaurant at the CN Tower
Culinary Tourism Event of the Year
Cultivate: A Festival of Food & Drink
Spirit Tree Estate Cidery Family Day Wassailing Festival
WindsorEats’ Dinner on a Pier
Culinary Tourism Experience Award
The Apple Pie Trail
The Barrels, Bottles & Brews Trail
Stratford Tourism Alliance
Tourism Industry Awards of Excellence (TIAO)
Tourism Innovator of the Year
Escape Manor & Diefenbunker Museum — Escape the Diefenbunker
Great Spirit Circle Trail — Authentic Indigenous Cultural Tours
Waterloo Warbirds
Tourism Event of the Year
Lumina Borealis
Kingsville Folk Music Festival
2016 World Cup of Hockey
Tourism Champion of the Year
Adriano Ciotoli
Deb Dalziel
Patti Kendall
Tourism Employer of the Year
Tourism Toronto
Caesars Windsor
Chelsea Hotel Toronto
Sustainable Tourism Award
Taste Real Local Food Fest
Spirit Tree Estate Cidery
Yours Outdoors
Accessible Tourism Award
Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada
Ontario Science Centre
Kingsville Folk Music Festival
Please note that voting for Ontario's Choice Awards is open until October 5.
The Ontario Tourism Awards of Excellence are a celebration of success and recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to Ontario’s tourism industry. Awards are jointly presented by the Tourism Industry Association of Ontario, the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation, the Culinary Tourism Alliance and Attractions Ontario across four respective categories: the Tourism Industry Awards of Excellence (TIAO); the Tourism Marketing & Travel Media Awards of Excellence (OTMPC); the Culinary Tourism Awards of Excellence (CTA); and Ontario's Choice Awards (Attractions Ontario).
