Revealed! Winners of 2012 Web Awards

The UK's leading travel companies celebrated in London yesterday after scooping gongs at the TravelMole 2012 UK Web Awards.

The awards, now in their ninth year, recognise the best online content in the travel and tourism industry.

After the awards ceremony at DoubleTree by Hilton London - Tower of London, the winners (and losers) were treated to a party at London's famous Windmill Theatre with The Sounds of the Supremes tribute act on stage.

TravelMole's Graham McKenzie and The Supremes

The TravelMole 2012 UK Web Awards winners were:

Best Accommodation Site Over 20 rooms

http://www.myhotels.com/

Best Airline Site

http://www.monarch.co.uk

Best Car Hire Site

http://www.affordablecarhire.com

Best Cruise/Ferry Site

http://www.royalcaribbean.co.uk/

Best Rail Operator Site

http://www.holidaysbyrail.com

Best Responsible Tourism Site

http://www.thelongrun.com/

Best Sports Travel & Tourism Site

http://www.neilson.co.uk/

Best Tour Operator Site

http://www.haven.com

Best Tourist Board Site

http://www.visitcornwall.com/

Best Travel Agent Site

http://www.mailtravel.co.uk/

Best Travel Blog

http://wearecunard.com/

Best Directory Site

http://crispwhitesheets.com/

Best Recruitment Site

www.newfrontiersclients.co.uk

Best Use of Social Media

www.facebook.com/ImaginativeTraveller

Thursday, September 27, 2012

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Monarch, for real?

I find it incredibly surprising Monarch won this prize. In travel we should be encouraging transparent pricing, which in turn creates trust. On this 'award winning' site clients are shown a 'lead-in' per person price. In the next step considerable charges are automatically added to this price, which a client must remove to get back down to the lead-in price. To make things worse, at no stage is the per person price shown again, only the total flight costs, which effectively hides these automatically added charges. At least the low-cost carriers make clients add the extras if they want them. Try it. Sorry to be negative, but it's not a system we should be applauding. Congrats to everyone that fully deserve their accolades.

By Tim Anderson, Thursday, September 27, 2012
Congratulations to Neilson

VSI-thinking, web designers of the Neilson site, would like to congratulate Neilson on their 'Best Sports Travel & Tourism Site' award. Weeks of booking systems integration, content development, user interface design and general love for the web ;) have paid off, we are delighted to be part of the success.

By Chris Thomas, Thursday, September 27, 2012