NEWS GLOBE TRAVEL AWARDS 2018


Globe Travel Awards 2018: Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, Super Break, Gold Medal and Attraction World were big winners, while photographer Steve Dunlop took the top individual award


Star presenter Harry Hill


Travel Weekly Group’s Stuart Parish and Lucy Huxley


Jet2holidays leads high flye


The industry’s top-performing suppliers were honoured at the 41st Travel Weekly Globe Travel Awards.


Thousands of agents voted in


this year’s awards, which were co-hosted by comedian and TV


presenter Harry Hill and Travel Weekly editor-in-chief Lucy Huxley. More than 1,200 guests


attended the event held at London’s Grosvenor House hotel. This year’s entertainment


“I only realised at the end when they said ‘pictures’ followed by ‘blond locks’”


included singer Lamar; Rozalla,


who sang her 1990s hit Everybody’s Free; and the RPJ Band. Travel industry photographer


Steve Dunlop received the night’s top honour – the


Presented by


Outstanding Contribution Award. Dunlop, who was working at the


awards on the night, accepted the award to rapturous applause and a standing ovation. “It’s the most amazing thing,


extraordinary,” he said. “I never expected anything like this, even when it was being read out. I only realised [it was me] at the end when they said ‘pictures’ followed by ‘blond locks’.” The Penny Akam Unsung Hero


Award went to Hays Travel agent Lisa Read, who helped a dying mum raise funds for her children, while the Innovation Award went to software solutions firm Zen3. Big winners on the night included


Jet2, which scooped three trade- voted awards and one consumer award across its package holiday and airline divisions, while Super Break, Gold Medal and Attraction World picked up two gongs each. Jet2holidays head of trade Alan


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