Mexico, Peru and Ecuador were among the big names to emerge victorious during the World Travel Awards South & Central America Gala Ceremony, held at the Huacca Pucllana Temple, Lima this evening. The industry’s elite, including chief executives of leading tourism organisations, government ministers and tourist board chiefs from across the continent attended the magnificent gala event hailed as ‘the Oscars of the travel industry’.

Tourism Malaysia has bagged the Best Food & Drink 2013 International Award at the Lonely Planet Magazine India Awards held at ITC Grand Central, Parel in Mumbai recently, as per a release. Manoharan Periasamy, Director, Tourism Malaysia, said, “Tourism Malaysia is honoured to have been conferred with this esteemed recognition, which will further motivate us to intensify our efforts in positioning Malaysia as the world’s leading Food & Drink destination, while promoting its attractions. We Malaysians are a lucky lot. In our multiracial community, as a result of historical migrations and Malaysia's geographical advantage, Malaysia's culinary style is a mixture of Malays, Chinese, Indian, Thai and Arabian cuisines - to name a few. This resulted in a symphony of flavours, making Malaysian cuisines highly exotic.”

Kuoni Academy, the travel and tourism education institute of Kuoni Travel India Pvt. Ltd. has been awarded with the best ‘Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Institute of the year’ at the India Education Awards organised in Delhi recently. The India Education Awards were organised by Franchise India & Francorp. This award recognises the outstanding contribution of Kuoni Academy towards excellence in education.

A world leader in premium serviced apartments and boutique residences, Frasers Hospitality has been awarded the title off Middle East’s Leading Serviced Apartment Brand by the World Travel Awards at a Gala Ceremony in Dubai. Recognising its commitment to excellence and continual endeavours to improve its offerings, Frasers also received top honours for each of its properties in the region - Bahrain’s Leading Serviced Apartments for Fraser Suites Seef Bahrain, Qatar’s Leading Serviced Apartments for Fraser Suites Doha and Dubai’s Leading Serviced Apartments for Fraser Suites Dubai. The ultimate hallmark of quality, often regarded as the travel industry Oscars, the World Travel Awards is the largest, most comprehensive and prestigious awards in the travel industry voted by travel and tourism professionals worldwide.

Indian Ocean paradise destination the Maldives is preparing to hose the World Travel Awards Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony on May 12th. It will be the first time the awards ceremony has visited the destination, with the prestigious event acclaimed globally as a premier networking platform in the travel industry.

--> The Gala Ceremony will be an elegant and glamorous five-star island-style event, synonymous with the idyllic Maldives. The event also marks a double celebratory year, with the Maldives celebrating 40 years of tourism, while the World Travel Awards is celebrating its 20th Anniversary.

The World Travel Awards! Every year World Travel Awards Fever hits the travel industry community around the world, building to the crescendo of the annual Awards Presentation, when tens of thousands of travel professionals cast their favorites on the web and glue themselves to official World Travel Awards web site to learn who will receive the highest accolade this year. The World Travel Awards were established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate the enormous achievements to be found in all sectors of the global travel industry.

Kerala Tourism's print campaign on World Tourism Day encouraging travellers to save precious rain forests through their simple actions has won the 'Olive Crown Award' for communicating sustainability. The print advertisement released on September 27 last year showing how a simple act like postponing a hotel laundry could help sustain rain forests, lifted the Award in the Press Services category, a state tourism press release said today.

World Travel Awards has issued a final call for votes ahead of the annual Middle East Gala Ceremony to be held in Dubai on May 5th. The event has become a hot ticket for organisations across a myriad of categories, with many leading lights expected to arrive in the tourism hub ahead of the event. Firmly established as the leading accolade in the tourism industry,

The Skytrax surveys have shed a little bit of positive light on airports by revealing the world's best.

Spicejet.com has won the Best Website Award at the recently concluded 'World Low CostAirlines Asia Pacific Conference' at Singapore. The award was given by Dale Lawrence, Director - Corporate Communications, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) on January 28, 2010 in Singapore. On behalf of SpiceJet, it was received by Chief Commercial Officer, Samyukth Sridharan and Chief Technology Officer, Virender Pal.

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has announced the 12 finalists for the 2010 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.

Indian aviation majors -- Jet airways, Air India, IndiGo airlines -- have won the country's most respected and premium travel and tourism industry awards - the Galileo Express TravelWorld Awards 2008.
Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, was honoured with the 'Best Domestic Full Service Airline' award at a glittering function at the Grand Hotel here recently. This was the airline's sixth consecutive victory in this category, in as many years.
Air India won the award of 'Best International Airlines (Short Haul)' category while IndiGo was adjudged the Best Low-cost carriers. The Britain's national carrier, British Airways won the 'Best International Airlines (long haul) award.
The awards were given away by Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel at a function in which senior hoteliers, airline officials and other distinguished members of the travel trade community were present.
The Galileo Express TravelWorld Awards were incorporated in 2003 by Galileo India Pvt Ltd and Express TravelWorld, a travel business magazine from The Express Group with an objective to promote professionalism and encourage the industry to attain higher levels of performance.
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IndiGo, a low-fare domestic airline, was awarded "Best Low-Fare Carrier in India for the year 2007" by the Air Passengers Association of India (APAI).

President and CEO of IndiGo Bruce Ashby said: "I am absolutely delighted that our efforts to run an affordable, reliable, hassle-free airline have been recognized by the people who matter most - the travellers".
The APAI conducted the poll among frequent flyers and its members at Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kochi airport during Feb 15-29, 2008, with more than 1600 respondents. Apart from passenger responses, over 400 online responses were received from members of APAI.
The award is based on scores received on six criteria: value for money, punctuality, connectivity, safety, refunds and baggage handling.
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Jet Airways India Ltd has announced that Travel agents worldwide have voted Jet Airways 'India's Leading Airline' at the 14th Annual World Travel Awards.

The awards were announced on November 02, 2007, at the World Travel Awards Asia, Australasia & Indian Ocean ceremony, held at the Leela Palace Kempinski, Bangalore, India.



Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as the "Travel industry's equivalent to the Oscars", the World Travel Awards are the most comprehensive and prestigious awards program in the global travel industry today. Conceived in 1993, these awards seek to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world's travel and tourism industry.

The World Travel Awards are especially coveted as, uniquely, the votes are cast globally by fellow professionals.

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