MARCH 2020 PAGE 8 ITIA AWARDS 2020


IRELAND'S PREMIER SOURCE OF TRAVEL INFORMATION


All the award winners pose for their annual photograph, A


tlantic Travel Letterkenny and Tour America


have won travel agency of the year awards at the Irish travel Industry awards in the Mansion House, Dublin. Siobhan Byrne Learat


won the travel agent of the year award. Atlas Travel and FCM won the corporate travel agency awards. Noel


McAuliffe’s


Travel Focus were time winners in the long haul and specialist tour oper- ator categories. Camino Ways were first time win- ners in the digital market-


And the winners are: Four travel awards recipients make it ten years in a row ing category. The winners included


serial winners of the award in several cat- egories. Amadeus won their tenth award as tech- nology provider, Irish Ferries their tenth award in the ferries category, Lanzarote their tenth in the winter destination category. Bookabed won


the accommodation pro- vider for the ninth time in ten years. Spain won their ninth successive award for best


tourist


board, Sunway won their eight successive award for best tour operator to Europe. Austria remain undefeated in the ski des- tination category, having won on the eight occa-


sions it was included as a category. Barcelona won the combined Europe and worldwide city award.. They were undefeated in the Europe category. The


supplier repre-


sentative award has been discontinued and the supplier team award split into four new categor- ies, won by Amadeus,


Bookabed, Emirates and MSC. MSC also retained their cruise line of the year award. The new value


air-


line category, to include Ryanair and Vueling, was won by Aer LIngus. And a newTravel Agency International Corporate award.


The airline business


class to Europe category has been discontinued, as have the Destina- tion City Worldwide category, the shopfront marketing campaign, the corporate agent of the year award and a cat- egory for


the supplier


promoting the trade to the public..


Award compere Bryan Dobson


ITAA Presdient John Spollen


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