ABTA opens nominations for branding award
ABTA members who best promote their membership of the association are being invited to nominate themselves for an award.
The initiative, part of the 2016 Travel Brit Awards, is open to any member who uses the ABTA logo or branding to promote their membership and the value of it.
Won by Midcounties Co-operative last year, the ‘Best use of ABTA Branding’ award winner will be chosen by an ABTA panel during April.
Judges will look at how well members use their window displays, social media, direct marketing or blogging, particularly in relation to ABTA’s ‘Travel with confidence’ strapline.
The three short-listed candidates and the winner will be profiled across ABTA Today, abta.com and ABTA’s social media channels.
The three finalists and their nominators will also be invited, as ABTA’s guests, to attend the gala dinner and awards ceremony at Warner Leisure Hotels, Bodelwyddan Castle, North Wales, on Sunday 10 July where the winner will be announced.
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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