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Stella Awards Recognizes PRA

Today, Northstar Meetings Group and its leading brands, Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings, announced the 2018 Stella Awards. PRA was named Best DMC in the Far West, Midwest and Northeast regions, according to Lori Cioffi, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Director for the Northstar Meetings Group.
Stella Awards spotlights the best hotels, convention centers, conference centers, convention and visitor bureaus, destination marketing organizations, destination management companies, airlines, and cruise lines.
Nearly 10,000 votes from around the world were cast for 532 organizations, nominated in 18 categories in six regions in the United States and worldwide. These thousands of votes combined with an expert panel of judges overseen by the editors of Northstar Meetings Group’s leading brands, Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings. Winners were recognized for delivering overall excellence, innovation and other critical aspects of business events.
With the broadest owned system of offices in the Americas, PRA was honored for consistently delivering exceptional value to business event professionals, and the organizations they collectively serve.
“It is an honor for our teams to be recognized through the Stella Awards, a recognition program which has quickly amassed deep peer engagement, which makes this recognition even more meaningful. That said, the real stars in this ecosystem are our thousands of clients and partners.” shared Tony Lorenz, CMM, Chief Executive Officer, PRA. “Business events serve as incredible drivers of targeted business outcome. When we get it right as a team, the events and related services we deliver move careers, businesses, and at times entire industries forward. Even in the middle of an extraordinary growth period at PRA, this recognition helps us appreciate the fact we tend to get it right, where it counts, in the view of the markets we serve.”
To discover this year’s Stella Award winners or to learn more about the awards program, please visit the Northstar Meetings Group site.
About PRA
PRA is a leading U.S. business events and destination management partner that designs and delivers conferences, incentive programs, sales meetings, tradeshows, and more nationwide. Our integrated services span strategy and creative, content and production, destination programming, and end-to-end logistics, helping clients turn the power of place into innovative results that move people and transform outcomes. With 40+ years in the industry and coast-to-coast coverage, PRA is trusted by blue-chip organizations for programs in every major U.S. destination and, through select partners, around the world. Recognized repeatedly among Special Events’ “Top 25 DMCs,” PRA brings seasoned expertise, rigorous execution, and local insider access to every engagement. Learn more at pra.com.
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