The Events Industry Council (EIC) announced in early 2025 that Visit Denver achieved PLATINUM Level certification to the EIC Sustainable Event Standards for the second year. Denver is the first destination to achieve the highest level of certification. The EIC Sustainable Event Standards are specific standards for environmental and social responsibility within the events industry. Created by the EIC Sustainability Committee in partnership with industry professionals and leading sustainability practitioners, the requirements provide event planners and suppliers with prescriptive actions for producing and delivering sustainable events.
With four hotels on Cvent’s Top 100 Meeting Hotels list and nearly 13,000 hotel rooms downtown, Denver is a top tier convention city. Cvent also named Denver as a top 10 North American meeting destination for 2024. In 2023, they ranked Denver No. 10 in the “Top 50 Meeting Destinations in North America,” noting the destination as a top choice for event planners worldwide. That distinction was reaffirmed in May 2025 when Denver was named the No. 10 “Top Meeting Destination in North America.” In March 2025, Visit Denver was recognized as “Convention & Visitor Bureau (CVB) of the Year” by ConferenceDirect and acknowledged as the “BEST Convention & Visitors Bureau to work with.” Additionally, in October 2024, Meetings Today named Visit Denver one of the best CVB's/DMO's in the West. They also named the Colorado Convention Center (CCC) one of the best convention centers in the United States. Denver is one of 13 of the country’s top 25 markets that has already recovered to pre-pandemic volume, according to the Knowland Q3 Performance Index in 2023.