Brand USA re-launches photo competition for agents
Brand USA has re-launched its travel agent photo competition and website in the UK and Ireland.
The winning 12 travel agents will have their photographs printed in a 2014 Brand USA desk calendar, distributed to UK and Irish travel agents.
The overall winner will win a place on Brand USA’s 2014 Megafam.
The online competition, found at www.famphotoUSA.co.uk, allows agents from the UK and Ireland to upload their photographs.
Photos can be uploaded from any fam to the US that has taken place during 2013 (from January).
Users will also be able to access the site through the Fam Photo Facebook app as well as automatically enter photos via Instagram, using the hashtag #famphotoUSA2013.
Brand USA president and CEO Chris Thompson said: "The competition has been identified as a way of engaging the UK and Irish travel trade, in particular front line sales staff, with both USA product and Brand USA.
The closing date is midnight November 7 2013 and winners will be announced on the site on November 15 2013.
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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