Recognition, customer support at coronary heart of National Travel & Tourism Week

April 20, 2026

This piece is sponsored by Experience Sioux Falls.

With the summer season journey season shortly approaching, locations and organizations within the customer business shall be celebrating and recognizing the significance of journey throughout National Travel & Tourism Week, May 3-9.

Locally, Experience Sioux Falls shall be kicking off the week of festivities by acknowledging customer support standouts with its Visitor Industry Awards, together with a number of different awards and recognitions, throughout the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon on Tuesday, May 5, on the Sioux Falls Convention Center.

“We asked for nominations of people who consistently deliver high standards with their customer service, and the people of Sioux Falls certainly delivered,” Experience Sioux Falls CEO Teri Schmidt mentioned.

“We received nominations for so many incredible people that are making huge, positive impacts on guests’ experiences, and these people deserve to be recognized.”

The Visitor Industry Awards embrace 4 Hospitality Awards, which shall be given to at least one individual in every of the classes of attraction, resort, restaurant and retail, and one Heart of the City Award, which acknowledges an individual who has made a major contribution to the customer business by way of inspiration, spirit and glorious management.

View the list of past award winners.

Headlining the Visitor Industry Luncheon is world keynote speaker Jesse Israel, who’s an professional in human efficiency and is thought for founding The Big Quiet. Through that motion, he has led among the largest meditations on earth, together with some whereas on tour with Oprah Winfrey.

While Israel is not going to be main any meditations throughout the Visitor Industry Luncheon, he shall be sharing his experience that will help you attain your full potential.

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Throughout National Travel & Tourism Week, business companions shall be acknowledged to indicate appreciation, and a number of other points of interest shall be lighting up purple all through the week as purple is the official colour of the journey and tourism business. If you intend to mild up your online business or attraction in purple, Experience Sioux Falls would like to know. Get in touch here.

Experience Sioux Falls additionally shall be encouraging the general public to take its revamped on-line coaching quizzes in an upcoming sweepstakes during which you not solely will obtain a Sioux Falls T-shirt only for finishing a quiz, however you additionally shall be entered to win certainly one of 5 $100 present playing cards to a neighborhood institution.

Keep a watch on Experience Sioux Falls’ social media channels — @experiencesfsd — for the launch of the sweepstakes later this week.

National Travel & Tourism Week will start to wind down with a free hospitality training session from Travel South Dakota and the South Dakota Retailers Association on Thursday, May 7, at Monick Yards. The theme of this 12 months’s session is Choosing to Care: How Curiosity Creates Community within the Workplace. It shall be led by James Robilotta, who’s a management creator, motivational speaker and skilled improv comic.