New travel media awards to launch this year
The inaugural Travel Media Awards will take place this autumn, it has been announced this week.
The event, on Monday 9 November at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London has been created ‘to celebrate excellence in travel media, journalism, broadcasting and Photography’, said the organisers, Travega and APL Media.
Submissions from both the consumer and trade media will be judged by both senior travel industry figures alongside some of the UK’s leading travel writers.
"Today’s travel media play a hugely influential role in the holiday or business travel decision-making process and the Travel Media Awards have been created in recognition of this," said the organizer.
The awards will cover a range of areas, from national newspapers to increasingly influential travel bloggers. There will also be a Travel Media Innovation Award.
Entry is open to all travel writers, broadcasters and photographers from next month.
The Travel Media Awards are owned and operated under a joint venture agreement between Travegaand APL Media Limited. For the purposes of fairness and transparency, no travel titles by APL Media will be entered into the Awards.
An advisory panel will be created as part of the awards.
Travega MD Giles Harper said: "We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Travel Media Awards, created in recognition of the significant role that the travel media play in promoting and selling both leisure and business travel; with so many different avenues available to the writer, photographer and travel broadcaster, the travel media sector is ever-increasing in size, and we look forward to establishing the event as a must-attend function in both the travel media and travel industry calendar."
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