MARCH 2020 PAGE 10 ITIA AWARDS 2020


IRELAND'S PREMIER SOURCE OF TRAVEL INFORMATION


Category sponsor Matt Lebbern of Princess Cruises with Maria Golpe and Karl Bradshaw of Camino Ways,


C


aminoways founded by Ro- land Montesgu,


have expanded to other markets under the Green- life umbrella. Roland moved to in


Ireland 2002,


founded the company in 2011.


Their digital marketing


AGENCY DIGITAL MARKETING: CAMINO WAYS


and


award follows awards in many sectors. Last year they launched our new website in Spanish and also our new brand Can- ariaWays.com, featur- ing walks in the Canary


Islands. Previous winners: 2014 Earth’s Edge (website award). 2018 Clickandgo 2019 Tour America


Category sponsor Jenny Rafter of Aer Lingus with Tania Crinion and Ste- phen McKenna of Atlas Travel,


A tlas Travel’s


Stephen Mc- Kenna ex-


pressed his satisfaction as winner of the corpor- ate travel award for the second successive year. “Atlas Travel is a mod- ern travel company who have driven change and innovation in travel for over 50 years. We are a next generation corporate travel management com- pany with a difference. Atlas was


recently


Tom Randles of J Barter Travel and Category sponsor Matt Lebbern of Princess Cruises


J


Barter Travel was founded in 1865 by Joseph Barter.


It is still a family


owned business to this day and claims to be the oldest established travel agency in Ireland. It has also one of the best internet presences, Travelnet,


their site in-


AGENCY MARKETING: J BARTER TRAVEL


viting live chat with an agent as you log on. Shortlist: Click & Go. Previous winners: 2011 FCm,


2012 Shandon Travel, 2015 Tour Amer-


ica, 2016 Clickandgo, 2017 Tour America. 2018 Grenham Travel 2019 Tour America (no award in 2013-4).


sold to Liam Lonergan. The Atlas difference is our ability to deliver smart solutions coupled with our commitment to deliver the highest qual- ity personalised service while helping compan- ies transform their travel programme.


and managed company who have


We are an Irish-owned been re-


cognised by Deloitte as a “Best Managed Com- pany in 2019, 2018 &


AGENCY CORPORATE: ATLAS TRAVEL


2017”, we are the only Corporate Management TMC to have achieved this standard. We have over 180 cus-


tomers operating across 18 different markets and we service small to medium sized business in addition to servicing global multination clients such as the ESB, Airbus Helicopters & many more across a broad range of industries and verticals. On the corpor- ate side of the business our primary focus is on driving exceptional ser- vice levels coupled with relevant smart solutions. We have a diverse suite


of specialised corpor- ate online tools, mobile solutions and platforms that are aligned with our mission of ‘Enhancing


every customer experi- ence’ enabling company road warriors and their travellers fly with com- fort, ease and peace of mind while on an organi- sational level we can en- sure travel safety, duty of care, optimal service effi- ciencies and drive policy compliance.


A key objective is to target specific industry verticals such as Pharma, HQ Ireland Companies and further target the Aviation sector with tar- geted sales initiatives. Atlas Travel have been awarded a Deloitte Best Managed award for the 4th time in 2020, Previous winners: 2011 CWT, 2012-3-4 FCm, 2015-6 Atlas, 2017 CWT, 2018 HRG, 2019 Atlas & CWT


Category Edel Redmond of Dublin Airport with Onur Gull and Hasan Mutlu T


urkish Airlines won best busi- ness class to Eur- ope in previous years. This year they won a new category.


Turkish now serve


319 destinations in 126 countries. The new air- port opened in Istanbul last year and the Dublin team are seeking a third


AIRLINE TO EUROPE FULL SERVICE: TURKISH AIRLINES


flight in Dublin to add to their double daily ser- vice, eventually hoping to have four flights in each direction daily, one for each of the banks at Istanbul airport.


Shortlist: Air France, Bri t ish Airways,


Lufthansa, SAS, Turkish. Previous winners: 2011- 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 Aer Lin- gus. Airline to Europe Business Class: 2015-6 BA, 2017-8-9 Turkish.


Category sponsor Edel Redmond of Dublin Airport with Anita Thomas and Enda Corneille of Emirates,


E


mirates won the hard fought long haul airline award


for the fifth year.


Enda Corneille said the award indicates that Emirates is a brand to be trusted. “we like to think we are a global brand with a very distinctive Irish flavour.”


They run a double


daily service to Dubai and onward to 50 cities


AIRLINE LONG HAUL: EMIRATES


in 80 countries across six continents . The ser- vice started with a single daily A330 flight and quickly went to B777 and since 2014 they have run a double daily.service. The growth in demand for Asia has been phe- nomenal, with bangkok


trailing Dubai as the most popular destination. This year Expo will be the big event in Dubai. Shortlist: Aer Lingus,


Air Canada, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Turkish Airlines. Previous: 2011- 2-3-4-5 Etihad, 2016-7- 8-9 Emirates.


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