Association names Idaho travel guide best in nation

The Travel Industry Association of America has named Idaho Commerce and Labor’s Division of Tourism travel guide as the best in the nation.

The recognition from the Washington, D.C.-based trade organization, which sets the standards for the travel industry, was one of the National Council Awards made at the annual convention of Educational Seminar for Tourism Organizations in Minneapolis this month.

"This is such an honor because it comes from our peers, who are much more discriminating than any panel of other judges would be," said state Tourism Administrator Carl Wilgus, last year’s recipient of the national organization’s tourism director of the year award.

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