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Travelmole Web Awards
Winners of the 2006 TravelMole Web Awards will be announced later today at a ceremony in London.
From over 400 nominations, four websites have been chosen for each of the 12 categories.
The winners and runners up will be revealed this afternoon at the Slovak Republic Embassy ceremony.
The results will be announced on tomorrow’s Travelmole newswire.
The shortlisted companies for each category are as follows:
Airlines – Easyjet, British Airways, KLM and Vueling
Travel Agency – TravelRepublic.co.uk, Beat The Brochure, Business Travel Direct, and Thomas Cook
Web-based Travel Agency – Just Click Cruise, Lastminute, Luxury Explorer, STA Travel
Tour Operator – Thomson, Bridge and Wickers, To Escape To, Scott Dunn
Travel Management – Business Travel Directo, Cranley, Azumano Travel, TD Travel Group
Cruise and Ferry – MSC Cruises, Navigator of the Seas, Royal
Caribbean International, Sea France.
Technology – Dohop, MapMyHotel, Momondo, Tourist Tracks.
Responsible Tourism – Explore, Responsible Travel, Worldhotel-link, Nature Southwest
Car Rental – Budget, Holiday Autos, Sixt, and US Rentacar.
Recruitment – C&M, AA Appointments, Monster, Reed.
Hotels – AmResorts, Lions Dive and Beach Resort, MGM Grand, Myhotels
Tourist Board – Discover Ireland, Nature Southwest, TravelNT (Australia’s Northern Territory), Visitbritain.
These have been judged by a panel of experts, including Debbie Hindle, managing director of London-based travel PR company BGB, Dr Hilary Murphy, Ecole Hoteliere, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Reet Wiseman, vice-president, northern region and global accounts, Sabre Travel Network.
Sponsors for this year’s awards include BGB, Capela Travel Marketing, CarTrawler, Complete Cruise Solution, Dataflexnet, Dolphin Dynamics, Slovakia and World Travel Market.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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