BUSINESS TRAVEL AWARDS 2019


Sponsor: Addison Lee Tristar Worldwide Chauffeur Services BEST BUDGET HOTEL BRAND ■ Ibis Hotels ■ Motel One ■ Point A Hotels ■ Travelodge Hotels BEST MIDSCALE HOTEL BRAND ■ Amba Hotels ■ Jurys Inn ■ Novotel ■ Premier Inn BEST UPSCALE HOTEL BRAND ■ NH Hotels – nhow ■ Pullman Hotels ■ The Savoy, London ■ Shangri-la Hotels and Resorts


Sponsor: Corporate Travel Management BEST SERVICED APARTMENT PROVIDER ■ The Apartment Service ■ Bridgestreet Worldwide ■ Oakwood Worldwide ■ SACO The Serviced Apartment Company


■ Silverdoor Apartments BEST CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROGRAMME ■ BCD Travel ■ Carlson Wagonlit Travel ■ Delta Air Lines ■ KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ■ Lufthansa German Airlines ■ Royal Lancaster London


Sponsor: Melia Hotels International BEST GROUND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY ■ The Addison Lee Group ■ Blacklane ■ CMAC Group ■ GroundScope ■ TBR Global Chauffeuring BEST CAR RENTAL COMPANY ■ Avis ■ Enterprise/National ■ Europcar Group UK ■ Sixt rent a car


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BEST CORPORATE PAYMENT PROVIDER ■ AirPlus International ■ American Express Services Europe ■ Barclaycard Commercial Payments


Sponsor: FCM Travel BEST RAIL OPERATOR ■ Great Western Railway ■ Heathrow Express ■ London North Eastern Railway ■ Virgin Trains BEST SHORT-HAUL AIRLINE ■ Easyjet ■ Flybe ■ Lufthansa German Airlines


Sponsor: Oakwood Worldwide BEST LONG-HAUL AIRLINE ■ American Airlines ■ All Nippon Airways ■ Delta Air Lines ■ Etihad Airways ■ Japan Airlines ■ Lufthansa German Airlines BUSINESS AIRLINE OF THE YEAR ■ All Nippon Airways ■ Delta Air Lines ■ Easyjet ■ Etihad Airways ■ Flybe ■ Lufthansa German Airlines ■ Singapore Airlines


Sponsor: Barclaycard BEST SPECIALIST BUSINESS TRAVEL SERVICE ■ International SOS – Event Support


■ CMAC Group – Business Continuity Transport


■ Corporate Traveller Production, Sports & Creative


■ Inntel – Specialist Accommodation & Travel Services


■ Reloquest - Reloquest Business Solution


■ Taxback International – VATconnect-analytics


BEST NEW TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT ■ AirPortr ■ Go2insight+ ■ Meetingspro ■ Tripbam Hotel Intelligence ■ Yapta TravelAI


Sponsor: Travelport BEST SALES ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT TEAM ■ Clarity ■ Click Travel ■ Corporate Travel Management Europe


■ FCM Travel Solutions ■ Virgin Atlantic and Delta Air Lines BEST TRAVEL MANAGEMENT COMPANY


(less than £50m UK annual sales) ■ Access Bookings Limited ■ Blue Cube Travel ■ Fello ■ INC. Travel Group ■ Omega Business Travel


Sponsor: ANA BEST TRAVEL MANAGEMENT COMPANY


(£50-£200m UK annual sales) ■ Business Travel Direct ■ Diversity Travel ■ Gray Dawes Group ■ Travel Counsellors for Business ■ Wings Travel Management BEST TRAVEL MANAGEMENT COMPANY (More than £200m UK annual sales) ■ BCD Travel ■ Capita Travel and Events ■ Clarity ■ Carlson Wagonlit Travel ■ Corporate Travel Management Europe


■ FCM Travel Solutions


Sponsor: The Apartment Service BEST SELF-BOOKING TOOL ■ Click Travel – Travel.cloud ■ Corporate Travel Management – Lightning


■ Traveldoo – Traveldoo Travel ■ Travelperk – Travelperk ■ Virgin Trains – Alexa


Sponsor: Groundscope RISING STAR OF THE YEAR ■ Rob Cope, finance services manager, Corporate Travel Management Europe


■ Andy Durma, hotel manager, Roomzzz Aparthotels


■ Joanna Lake, senior events consultant, Clarity


■ Didzis Neimanis, head concierge, Amba Hotel Charing Cross


■ Lynsey Queen, sales manager, Carlson Wagonlit Travel


Sponsor: Lufthansa Group TRAVEL BUYER OF THE YEAR ■ Caroline Blackmore, global category manager, travel, British American Tobacco


■ Lindsay Cooper, category manager, Kier


■ Kerrie Henshaw-Cox, global commercial lead, Astrazeneca


■ Michael McSperrin, global head of facilities and support services, Alexander Mann Solutions


■ Steve Proud, EMEA travel manager, Citi


■ Alison Webb, systems and process development manager, Virgin Media


Sponsor: Travelodge TRAVEL TEAM OF THE YEAR ■AXA Partners and AirPlus International


■ BBC Procurement and American Express Global Business Travel


■ PwC Serviced Apartment Programme and Native & SACO Apartments


■ UBS and BCD Travel Team ■ University of Salford and Diversity Travel


■ Willis Towers Watson Travel Team and American Express Global Business Travel Team


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