Friday, March 23, 2007

Travolution Awards - Shortlist announced

ADVERTISING AWARDS

Best Use of Online Advertising

Love Creative for STA Travel
Harvest Digital for Cruise Thomas Cook
Harvest Digital for Cheapflights
KitCatt Nohr for Virgin Holidays
Agency.com for BA.com

Best Use of Affiliate Advertising

The Dedicated Partnership for UKSeries.com
Affilinet for Paramount Hotels
Buy.at for LateRooms

Best Use of CRM

CreatorMail for Thomson
Lastminute.com (in-house)


MARKETING & INNOVATION AWARDS

Best Use of Social Media

Jumeirah Hotels – The JCast
TravellersPoint maps
STA Travel Blogs
EnjoyEngland/Yahoo! Answers
Avis WeTryHarder Blog
Select World Travel Blog

Best Agency for Search Engine Optimisation

Neutralize for Justtheflight.co.uk
Spannerworks for SN Brussels Airlines
Tamar for National Car Rental
Greenlight for Monarch Airlines
BigMouthMedia for Superbreak

Best Agency for Website Design

Adams Creative for TravelOwl.co.uk
Designate Communications for Wales In Style
Five By Five for Island Cruises and Club 18-30
Netizen Digital for various
Fortune Cookie for Kuoni UK
Nucleus for various


TRAVEL AGENT AWARDS

Best Travel Agent Website

RailChoice
Travel Designers
Isango.com
STA Travel
Expedia.co.uk
WhyDontYou.com
TravelRepublic
PackYourBags.com
Expedia Corporate Travel

Best Use of Technology

DirectLine Holidays
Door2Tour.com
Comtec
Dolphin Dynamics
Touch Clarity


TOUR OPERATOR AWARDS

Best Tour Operator Website

Leger Holidays
Thomson
VisitBattlefields.com
Voyages Jules Verne
Sunisle.co.uk
• Kuoni.co.uk
VillaPlus
OnTheGoTours.com
DirectSki.com
ErnaLow.co.uk

Best Use of Technology

Adventure Company/Netizen Digital
• Kuoni


SUPPLIER AWARDS

Best Hotel Website

• Paramount-Hotels.co.uk
• Jumeirah.com
BestWestern.co.uk
Hyatt.com
Sheraton.com
VonEssenHotels.co.uk

Best Airline Website

FlySilverjet.com
BA.com
FlyBMI.com
ThomsonFly.com
VirginAtlantic.com

Best Travel Insurance Website

GoTravelInsurance.co.uk
JourneysTravel.co.uk/InsureMore.co.uk
1StopTravelInsurance.co.uk

Best Car Hire Website

USRentacar.co.uk
TaxiTransfers.co.uk
HolidayAutos.co.uk
Avis.co.uk


TRAVEL INFORMATION AWARDS

Best Travel Portal

TravellersPoint.com
TravelGator.com
WalesInStyle.com
WAYN.com
EnjoyEngland.com
TripAdvisor.co.uk
Viator.com
Yahoo.co.uk/Travel

Best Meta Search/Price Comparison Website

Kinkaa.com
Australia Travel Market
Cheapflights.co.uk
Sidestep.com
TravelSupermarket.com
Kelkoo Travel

Best Use of Technology

Teletext Holidays Linguabot
IfYouSki.com
• Cheapflights.co.uk Partner Portal
Icelolly.com TV
Online Travel Brochures


TRAVOLUTION SM@RT AGENT OF THE YEAR

Mann Link Travel
Sunmaster
Coachtrips.com
Select World Travel
C&B Maddocks Travel
Travelcare


NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

• Isango.com
TravelZoo UK
Sidestep UK


ONLINE TRAVEL BRAND OF THE YEAR

Shortlist to be made from winners of Best Travel Agent Website, Best Tour Operator Website, Best Airline Website, Best Hotel Website, Best Car Hire Website, Best Travel Portal and Best Meta Search/Price Comparison Website categories.


TRAVOLUTION ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Shortlist will not be published

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good Luck to all! I'm looking forward to see who wins the categories! :)

Anonymous said...

What, no links?

Anonymous said...

Wow, thanks for the two inclusions in the shortlists! The guys that spent 12 months slaving over the maps are going to be happy with that recognition :) And best travel portal; wow, that's some fierce competition we're up against (although I'm still confident!)!

Best of luck to everyone (although of course less luck to those in the same categories as us - hahaha)!

Malvern World Travel said...

Should I have gone to Specsavers Kevin? One Minute Select World Travel are short-listed for best use of social media and then if by Magic, I could swear that some Links ( as Ourman quite rightly mentioned) have suddenly appeared but the name of Select World Travel suddenly seems to have disappeared? No doubt you have the matter in hand Kev.

Good Luck everybody.

Travolution Blogger said...

apologies Lee. error during the editing and placing of links.

Anonymous said...

Can't we have a new category of most reviewed website in Travolution? I'm sure we (Explore) would be in with a chance of winning that one :)

Maybe next year...

Social media category is certainly the most interesting.

looktours said...

Good to see Travolution's awards are catching some publicity. At viator.com we're very happy to have been nominated, see you in April at the ceremonies.

One question for Travolution: are you going to send logos or creative to the nominees so we can promote the awards on our own sites?

Best,
Scott Mc
Viator.com

Travolution Blogger said...

Scott: Viator, or any other nominee, who wishes to carry some creative can get in touch with me directly. I can send Travolution or Awards logos.

Email me: kevin.may@rbi.co.uk

KLM, ed, Travo

Travolution Blogger said...

Ourman: All links now added to the companies.

KLM, ed, Travo

Anonymous said...

Great names there. Interesting to see www.isango.com is in best new comer category. How come the newcomer list is so short. There are many more web sites which came out in last 1 year.

Anonymous said...

The crew here at TravelGator are ecstatic at being mentioned in such great company. We’re also pretty happy that so many of our partners have also been nominated. Good luck to everyone!

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Travolution Blogger said...

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