Esse Quam Videri Award
The Esse Quam Videri Award, which echoes the state motto, celebrates a recipient’s gift of time, energy and resources to elevate a destination to new heights. Honorees embody what it means “to be, rather than to seem.”
2024
Glenn Patterson Wilson — Halifax
2023
Catawba Valley Collective — Old Fort
2022
High Point Market Authority — High Point
2021
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 Visit NC 365 was held virtually. No awards were presented.2020
Bill Carson — Spruce Pine
2019
Stephen Hill — Kinston
Vivian Howard — Kinston