2010 AGENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE & ACHIEVEMENT IN
RETAIL & ONLINE AGENTS
The Agent Achievement Awards is the UK's leading travel agent national awards programme, now in its 14th year,
created to recognise and honour excellence and achievement in retail and online travel agents throughout the UK.
The Agent Achievement Awards will be returning to the Lancaster London Hotel, (formerly known as the Royal Lancaster Hotel),
London on Thursday 22 April 2010.
The Awards attract some of the UK’s top performing travel agents from the independent and multiple sectors,
so if your business supports the agent route to market you should be attending!
AWARDS
The Principals' Awards to agents are presented both nationally and regionally along with 6
Industry Awards covering sectors such as Homeworker and Call Centres; in addition Awards will be presented to
3 individuals in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the retail travel sector.
A full list of Awards is below.
Regional Awards of the Year
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- North West England & North Wales
- Yorkshire & North East England
- Central England
- South West England & South Wales
- London & South East England
National Awards of the Year
- Cruise Agent
- Ski Agent
- Luxury Agent
- Call Centre Agent
- Leisure Online Agent
- Leisure High Street Agent
Industry Awards of the Year
- Travel Promotion / Innovation
- Travel Website
- Leisure High Street Manager
- Call Centre Manager
- Homeworker
- Young Leisure Travel Professional
THE AWARDS PROCESS
Stage 1 Nominations
- Nominations will be accepted from all Suppliers and Principals in the UK travel trade industry.
The organisers will contact the nominees to verify all nominations in the regional and national awards.
- Retail and online travel agents may self-nominate in the Industry Awards categories only
Stage 2 Submissions
- Nominations made in the Industry Awards will be contacted by the organisers and invited to submit a Written Submission
Stage 3 Voting in the Principals’ Awards
- Principals and suppliers will receive a Voting Paper listing all eligible nominations in the regional
and national Awards; each trading company will be entitled to one vote
Stage 4 Judging of the Industry Awards
- An expert panel of independent travel industry judges will review the Written Submissions and select the Winners in the
Travel Promotion / Innovation and also the Travel Website Awards
- Interviews will be conducted with the short-listed entries in the individual People Awards’ categories
JUDGING PANEL
The Judges of the 2010 Agent Achievement Awards include:
Chris Barker, WA Shearings
Steve O'Loughlin, W&O Travel
Phil Dickinson, Sandals
Allan Lambert, Bourne Leisure
Colin Wilson, Page & Moy
Adrian Smyth, Jetset
Litsa Constantinou, Inghams
Graham Balmforth, Superbreak
Paul Stobbs, Attraction World
Andrew Nicholson, Traveltainment
Martin Zahra, Holiday Malta
Tracey Cheffey, Yahoo
THE AGENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS CEREMONY
The Awards Ceremony will take place on 22 April 2010 at the Lancaster London Hotel, Lancaster Terrace,
London and the Awards will be presented at a black tie dinner.
FURTHER INFORMATION
The event: How to enter, book a table or place email franciszka.ozog@kingley.co.uk
Support the event: For details of low cost, high profile sponsorship opportunities email giles.harper@kingley.co.uk
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED