The World Travel Awards has announced that the nominees for its World Ceremony. Travel professionals now have the opportunity to cast their votes for the brands they think deserve to win the industry’s most coveted award.
This year is expected to smash all previous WTA voting records with a record-breaking 16,000 travel professionals having already registered to vote within the past four months, bringing the total number of voters to 183,000.
The regional WTA 2009 winners have automatically been put forward as nominees for the WTA finals. 987 companies have made it to the final round of nominations. The 92 WTA World category winners will be announced on 8 November at the Grosvenor House in London.
This glitzy event - taking place the day before World Travel Market - is expected to end the year on a high - with over 100 Miss World finalists already confirmed to attend and present trophies to award winners.
The Wall Street Journal has described this event as the ‘Oscars of the travel industry’.
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Corfu for £5 - how bad can it be? Vincent Graff discovers the true cost of cheap breaks
Back in January, as the recession took hold, the travel company Thomson unveiled an extraordinary set of offers. There was £12 for a night in Goa, £6 for a night in Crete, and, most eye catching of all, £5 for a night in a "four-star" apartment in Corfu. For less than the price of two pints of beer in London, I could spend a couple of days in one of Europe's premier holiday destinations. There was, of course, the odd catch. Like getting there. Thomson's own airline does not have a daily flight, making an overnight trip possible only if you book flights with another company. But these are mere details. I bagged the cheapest easyJet deal I could - £134 - and set out to discover what kind of accommodation you could buy for a fiver.
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With some restrictions being lifted on travel to Cuba, more and more Americans, especially with Cuban descent, are becoming more interested in returning there to see their family. For others, it is an opportunity to rent a house while on vacation, go on tours, or eat in various private restaurants. www.2cubatravel.com will have the tourist information you are looking for.
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