The Cabell-Huntington Convention & Visitors Bureau is the recipient of The Telly Award for Outstanding Online Video in the Travel/Tourism category. The award winning “Soccer Welcome Video” was served to orient visitors for the 2009 US Youth Soccer Region 1 Tournament, which brought approximately 16,000 people to the Barboursville and Greater Huntington area.

The Telly Awards receive nearly 14,000 entries from the world’s finest production companies, ad agencies, TV stations, cable companies, corporations and interactive agencies.

"Receiving a Telly is a tremendous honor for all involved," said Jennifer Wheeler, Director of Marketing for the Cabell-Huntington Convention & Visitors Bureau. "Further, it acknowledges the great efforts to which our community went to make the 16,000 guests that were here for the soccer tournament feel welcome." View at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJczZFAC-g.

Longtime STS Marketing College professor Dr. Larry Gustke and SETTRA board member Dr. Gene Brothers join forces to start a new venture focusing on the vacational rental property segment. Destination Analytics is cooperating with destinations and vacation rental property managers to provide online access to critical destination performance metrics.

"We have been working with the tourism industry in the Southeast for years and it is clear that destination vacation rental managers are in need of better metrics," said Dr. Brothers, president of the newly formed venture. "We have worked with destinations where vacation rentals make up a huge part of the available accommodations and contributions of these units to the destination’s performance up to now have fallen through the research cracks." Learn more.