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Taking a Shot at Tourism Made Twiggs Dyer a Community Star

Allyson Twiggs Dyer was a successful tourism official with the city of Fayetteville when she was chosen as a member of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s 2007 Forty Under 40 class. Nearly five years later, her career is still thriving — just in a different location. Dyer, who also married in 2008, was director of the Fayetteville Convention & Visitors Bureau from 2002 to 2010. In October of that year, she resigned after accepting an offer from Raymond Burns, the president and CEO of the Rogers-Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce, to become director of the Rogers Convention & Visitors Bureau. “It was tough,” Dyer said of leaving her job in Fayetteville. “But there are opportunities in your career that you absolutely cannot pass up. This was one of those... [ MORE ]