Being inducted into the Denver & Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame are: president & CEO of the Denver Broncos, Joe Ellis; owner of The Fort restaurant and historian Holly Arnold Kinney; and former Colorado Governor Roy Romer.
A special posthumous award will be presented to one of the most famous figures of the America West, a man who did much to make Denver and Colorado popular tourism destinations – the legendary frontier scout and showman, Buffalo Bill Cody.
The Tourism Hall of Fame serves as the highest award for Denver’s travel industry – which registered its best year ever in 2015 with 16.4 million overnight visitors, generating more than $5 billion in spending. The industry supports more than 54,000 jobs in the metro area.
The gala is a fund-raising event for the VISIT DENVER Foundation, which has awarded more than $842,000 in scholarships to 310 Colorado students pursuing higher education in the fields of tourism and hospitality.
