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Dress up to win
Hope sets up social site
£1k at TTG Awards
Rob Gill.
TTG Face of Travel winner Paul Hope has
LIKE Cheryl Cole and Angelina Jolie, The TTG launched a social networking website aimed at
Travel Awards always delivers on the fashion operators, agents and customers.
front and this year’s event, on Tuesday, promises Hope, director of homeworking company
to be even more glamorous than usual. Travel Creators, based in Doncaster, said the site,
Adding extra sparkle to the evening will be the called TravelsNetwork, will include reviews of
prospect of a £1,000 prize for the best-dressed resorts, hotels, excursions, attractions, restau-
guest, as voted for by TTG readers. rants and bars written by users who join the site.
The TTG fashion squad will be taking photos Hope, who won the TTG Face of Travel compe-
of the best-dressed party-goers during the tition at the launch party of Celebrity Equinox in
champagne reception at the start of the awards. Southampton in July, said: “At the moment it’s a opening it up to agents as a social network –
Readers will be able to vote online for their blank canvas until people start using it. though obviously they wouldn’t get all the
favourite the next day. “The more content we get, the better. We want functionality such as access to our customers.”
The winner will receive a style consultancy and to make people aware that the social network is The website is part of Travel Creators’ plans to
£1,000 to spend at designer outlet centre Bices- there.” increase its team of five homeworkers to 20 by
ter Village, which is sponsoring the competition. Hope will include his own take on events, such next summer and 75 within three years.
The first 100 people to vote will be entered as next week’s TTG Travel Awards 2009 (see left) Hope said he ultimately aimed to buy
into a draw to win £50 to spend at Bicester Village. and next month’s Travel Convention in Barcelona. properties in destinations but this would not
The Big Idea winner will also be announced at “The site was originally intended just for happen for three to five years.
the awards, where someone will snap up customers,” he added. “But I’ve been talking to
£100,000 to help launch their business idea. operators about putting up their offers and ■ View the site at
travelsnetwork.co.uk
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