The Buffalo Bill Center of the West (formerly Buffalo Bill Historical Center) in Cody, Wyoming, has just learned that it is a recipient of TripAdvisor’s 2013 Certificate of Excellence award. The travel Web site presents the honor to the only top-performing 10 percent of businesses worldwide listed on TripAdvisor.com.
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, is celebrating its new award from the travel Web site TripAdvisor: the Certificate of Excellence. To qualify for the award, the Center had to maintain an overall rating of four or higher, from a possible five, as reviewed by travelers on TripAdvisor.com, and must have been listed on TripAdvisor for at least 12 months. Additional criteria include the volume of reviews received within the last year. The Center of the West is the top-rated attraction in Cody according to visitor reviews on TripAdvisor.
“We are delighted with the TripAdvisor award,” says Bruce Eldredge, Executive Director and CEO of the Center of the West. “It is due to the tireless efforts of our staff that we’ve received this honor; we congratulate them for all they do to create an extraordinary experience for our visitors. Because of their hard work, the people who interact with us—in person or online—get to know the American West in a personal and meaningful way. These individuals’ votes of confidence through 627 reviews to date—531 of which are ‘excellent’ and 75 are ‘good’—are evidence that we’re achieving our goal of helping visitors connect with the American West.”
TripAdvisor is the world’s largest travel Web site, and its branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 200 million unique monthly visitors and over 100 million reviews and opinions. Stephen Kaufer, President and CEO of TripAdvisor wrote that, “At TripAdvisor, we understand the power of traveler reviews—and today we’re proud to recognize Buffalo Bill Center of the West for the exceptional feedback you’ve earned from travelers over the past year.”
The Center of the West, located just 50 miles from the East Gate of Yellowstone National Park, has an annual visitation of 200,000 individual travelers. Founded in 1917 by the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association upon the death of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, the Center has since grown to include five museums focused on the American West. To find out more, visit the Center’s Web site.
Since 1917, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West has been committed to the greatness and growth of the American West, keeping western experiences alive. The Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, weaves the varied threads of the western experience—history and myth, art and Native culture, firearms, and the nature and science of Yellowstone—into the rich panorama that is the American West.
For additional information, visit centerofthewest.org or the Center’s page on Facebook.
