May 7, 2021
Dallas Thurn, manager of operations and technology at the National Comedy Center, was recently honored with a Tourism Excellence Award by the New York State Tourism Industry Association for “Excellence in Young Professional Leadership.”
The 2021 NYSTIA Tourism Excellence Awards honors state tourism professionals’ work in an extraordinary year. The award for Young Professional Leadership recognizes the brightest rising star in New York state tourism and only one honoree is selected statewide. Thurn was selected because of his abilities, strong commitment to increasing his expertise in the travel and tourism industry, and his achievements in 2020.
Thurn was recognized for his leadership in the reopening of the National Comedy Center in 2020 after its 16-week closure due to COVID including the development and implementation of the National Comedy Center’s state-of-the-art COVID health and safety program “LaughSafe” which was recently called “an absolutel