Accepting the Iowa Tourism Award for Outstanding Attraction are Ringgold County Conservation Board members Dale Walkup, Randy Bishop, Jim Norris, Director Kate Zimmerman, Doug Frost and Susie Catanzareti.
The Iowa Tourism Office and the Travel Federation of Iowa has presented the Ringgold County Conservation Board’s Dragoon Trace Nature Center the Iowa Tourism Award for Outstanding Attraction.
The award was among 27 recognizing excellence in the tourism industry at a ceremony today in Altoona during the 2019 Iowa Tourism Conference.
Awards to both metro and rural areas were made in 13 award categories.
Tourism in Iowa generates more than $8.5 billion in expenditures and $507 million in state taxes, plus employs 69,600 people statewide.
