Sponsor unveiled for British Travel Awards
Payment systems provider, Lloyds TSB Cardnet, has been signed as the sponsor of this year’s British Travel Awards.
The awards are being held in Battersea, London on Thursday November 6, the week before World Travel Market.
Last year over 100 companies were recognised for their contribution to the industry at a ceremony attended by the industry’s senior travel professionals.
Once again, details of the category winners will be published in a post-event supplement distributed with The Sunday Times in early 2009.
British Travel Awards managing director Lorraine Barnes Burton said: “Having a non-travel company heading up our list of sponsors and supporters means that we are able to build on our reputation for being independent and with the team at Lloyds TSB we will be in a position to bring an even wider consumer voting audience to the awards programme.
“Through our partnerships with The Sunday Times, Yahoo, Consumer Data and Sky Travel, our consumer audience reach is already significant, diverse and relevant for the industry, and now, with the potential to reach Lloyds TSB’s 16 million customers – we anticipate some very exciting results in the consumer voted categories this year.”
Nigel Leacock, director at Lloyds TSB Cardnet, added: “The travel and tourism industry is very important to us and I am delighted that Lloyds TSB Cardnet is now the major sponsor of The British Travel Awards.
“This is a key event in the travel industry calendar and we look forward to working together to help recognise the very best in the industry, and to make the night a real success.”
Industry partners aligned with the awards to encourage trade participation so far this year include Travelmole, The Institute of Travel & Tourism, Triton Travel Group and Stella Travel Services, Advantage, and AITO.
Travel industry professionals can nominate who they think should go forward to the voting stage on line at www.britishtravelawards.com from May 2 until June 16 before consumer and trade voting begins in July.
For further details of the awards programme, or to discuss partner and supporter status opportunities, email [email protected] or call 0871 472 0881.
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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