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This week’s top stories: 1. Globe Travel Awards 2. Kuoni sale concerns 3. Swiss prices to freeze 4. Calling all mums... 5. January sales ‘mixed’
1 Rebekah Commane
Travel Weekly’s Globe Travel Awards continued to set standards this year, with 1,200 guests enjoying a spectacular night of celebrity entertainment and celebrating the trade’s favourite suppliers. Travel Weekly editor-in-chief Lucy
Huxley and comedian and actor Jack Whitehall co-hosted the awards and handed out 35 sought-after gongs at the Grosvenor House hotel, Park Lane. Abta chairman and Sunvil Holidays
founder Noel Josephides was honoured with the Outstanding Achievement award for his considerable contribution to the industry. The Penny Akam Unsung Hero award
went to Barrhead Travel’s Leanne Kane, while foreign exchange start-up WeSwap took the innovation category. Attraction World took home the most awards, winning the Best Add-ons Provider, Best Trade-friendly Brand and Best Trade Sales Team accolades. The awards are voted for entirely by
travel agents and the supplier/trade relationship was highlighted as key to
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Triple Globe winners
Attraction World
Attraction World and Josephides among biggest Globes winners
success by the award winners. Claire Cannon of Classic Collection Holidays, which won the Globe for Best Short-Haul Operator for a third time, said: “This award is recognition of the hard work our team and trade partners have put in. Agents are our bread and butter and we don’t ever take that for granted.” Prizes given away during the evening included five trips to New York courtesy of Royal Caribbean, which also held a draw for a £10,000 diamond, won by Paul Kennedy of GoCruise. Travel Weekly managing director Stuart Parish said: “I’m so proud of what the Globe Travel Awards mean to the industry. They’ve grown every year under our independent ownership and this year’s was no different.” “The Globes remain the must-win
award of the travel industry calendar. “Of course, both agents and suppliers
are pivotal to the ongoing success of not just the awards but Travel Weekly in general, and I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported our big night.” ❯ Globe Travel Awards, page 12 ❯ Letters, page 30
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