{"id":21252,"date":"2020-04-27T23:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/?p=21252"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:59:59","slug":"dark-sky-association-is-awarded-with-the-bizz-for-its-distinguished-business-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/dark-sky-association-is-awarded-with-the-bizz-for-its-distinguished-business-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Sky\u00ae Association is awarded with THE BIZZ  for its distinguished business excellence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dark Sky\u00ae Association, located in Portugal, has achieved two recognitions in the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">same year of 2020, for its great performance and business leadership, <\/span><b>THE BIZZ <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Award\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>THE PEAK OF SUCCESS <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Award. These recognitions will be granted on November\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">26, 2020 in the gala ceremony to be held at Marsa Malaz Kempinski, The Pearl \u2013 Doha\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and on May 28, 2021 at The Sheraton Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In previous editions, The BIZZ Awards were held in cities such as Houston, New York,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Punta Cana, Panama, Cusco, Rome, Mumbai, Orlando, Barcelona, Miami\/ Bahamas,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doha, Paris, Los Cabos, Dubai, Venice, Hawaii, Abu Dhabi, Athens, Las Vegas, Muscat,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington and Monaco.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WORLDCOB <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a leading business organization located in Houston, Texas, that promotes\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the development and growth of more than 3,500 companies in over 120 countries and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recognizes and boosts the growth of the outstanding companies and business people as\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">well as promoting the corporate social responsibility. And it makes it through The BIZZ, <\/span><b>an\u00a0<\/b><b>award that recognizes the business excellence.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this triumph, Dark Sky\u00ae Association becomes a member of WORLDCOB alongside\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">large corporations. The recognition gained will allow growth at a business level because it\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increases the capacity for business relationship, generates more business and revitalizes\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the corporate image. Dark Sky\u00ae Association has been considered as a Platinum Member\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of WORLDCOB which will allow the generation of businesses among the members of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WORLDCOB and promote the socially responsible corporate culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dark Sky\u00ae Association is a pioneer in the development of astrotourism and created its\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first destination in 2007, Dark Sky\u00ae Alqueva. Dark Sky\u00ae Alqueva is the first Starlight\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tourism Destination in the world and the first cross-border certified. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certified since 2011 by\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starlight Foundation, this destination currently comprises of 10 municipalities in Portugal\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and 13 municipalities in Spain, in an area of almost 10.000 square kilometers. Dark Sky\u00ae\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alqueva is an internationally awarded destination, having received the Ulysses Award &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Runner Up (UNWTO), the ETIS Award (European Commission), Europe\u2019s Best\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Responsible Tourism Award 2019 (World Travel Awards) and Europe\u2019s Leading Tourist\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Destination 2020 (Corporate Travel Awards).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2017, the network of destinations developed under this concept and brand has\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">grown from one Dark Sky\u00ae to three Dark Sky\u00ae destinations. So, promoting the protection\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the night sky through almost 13.000 square kilometers, Portugal now has Dark Sky\u00ae\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alqueva, and in result of the partnership with ADXTUR and ADRVT, Dark Sky Aldeias do\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xisto (Center of Portugal) and Dark Sky Vale do Tua (North of Portugal).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21244 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/23435345-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21240 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0001-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21242 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/000221-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dark Sky\u00ae Association, located in Portugal, has achieved two recognitions in the\u00a0same year of 2020, for its great performance and business leadership, THE BIZZ Award\u00a0and THE PEAK OF SUCCESS Award. These recognitions will be granted on November\u00a026, 2020 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22599,"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252\/revisions\/22599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskyalqueva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}