Park Board Wins Award for Web Site

July 18, 2005 - The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation won the National Award of Merit from the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) at its annual conference in late June.

Ever since the launch of the newly designed web site in December 2003, visits to the Park Board site have risen by 70% with over 1 million hits anticipated by end of 2005. Innovations and introductions since the launch include online golf reservations, advance booking (6-30 days) for golf reservations, program registration at many community centres, over 300 weekly feature boxes posted and, currently in progress, park data, descriptions and histories for our over 200 greenspaces.

The Vancouver Park Board's public web site at www.vancouverparks.ca won the National Award of Merit at CPRS' annual conference in Calgary where the Park Board's Corporate Services Web Design Team was honoured in the 'electronic and interactive' category for strategic development and relevance to our overall communications objectives. Our submission "Come Home to Parks and Recreation" was a finalist against the Toronto District School Board's web site.

Learn more about other awards and recognition received by the Vancouver Park Board.

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