| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 28/08/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 77 |
| Copyright: Other |
Charity appeal
Industry event keeps charity in the limelight
Campaign ensures it’s all for a good cause
The Globe Awards are an opportunity for members of the trade to recognise the best players in the industry, catch up with colleagues and, of course, have a great night out.However the evening is also an important fund-raising event.
This year, the Globes will be supporting the Family Holiday Association in its Give A Kid A Break campaign.
The FHA campaign aims to help disadvantaged children and give families an opportunity to get away from it all by taking a holiday.
The Travel Weekly Globe Awards 2000 raised £9,000 for the Just a Drop campaign, which is run in partnership with the British Red Cross
The money collected for the appeal will help supply families living in rural areas of Malawi and Mozambique with clean water.
In the money: Trevor Harding, managing director, Travel Weekly, hands over a cheque for £9,000 to World Travel Market exhibition director Fiona Jeffery for the Just a Drop appeal. This year World Travel Market will be asking every visitor to donate at least £1 to the campaign.
Make it a night to remember…
6.30pm: the evening kicks off with a champagne drinks reception in the Ballroom hosted by Forte Hotels.
quotes
Travel Weekly talked to some of last year’s winners about what it means to win a Globe Award.
Best Airline to the Pacific – Air New Zealand
“The Globe Awards are a hard won endorsement of a company’s reputation and service delivery. It is one of the few awards where you are judged solely by an industry audience – but much of their choice is influenced by feedback from their customers – the travelling public. It is this interesting mix of peer group and public which makes the Globes such a benchmark award. As Best Airline to the Pacific for six out of the past seven years we know how tough it is to hold on to a Globe Award and it is something we determinedly set out to achieve each year.”
Roger Poulton, UK manager, Air New Zealand
Best Car-Rental Company (Leisure) – Holiday Autos
“Winning the award is extremely important to us. It is probably one of the most significant events in the calender when travel agents can tell an operator whether they have given them the right support throughout the entire year. The longer we win the award the more important it is for us to continue to win, which means ensuring we keep putting more in to the trade each year.”
Tony Seaman, managing director, UK and Ireland, Holiday Autos
Best Operator Winter Sports – Crystal Holidays
“Winning best Winter Sports Operator meant an enormous amount to everyone here. Each winter season takes an immense amount of planning and hard work and to be told by travel agents we’re getting it right is the best accolade we could possibly have. There can be no higher achievement in the industry than to be voted number one by travel agents themselves.”
Debbie Marshall, managing director, Crystal Holidays
Best Caribbean Hotel Group – Sandals
“Sandals was very proud to have won a Globe Award last year for the Best Caribbean Hotel Group for the sixth year in a row. To win a prestigious award such as this is testimony to the fact we have fulfiled the criteria we set out to fulfil; to receive the endorsement of our trade partners and the public. We recognise our trade partners as our harshest critics and the best reflection of our level of success in the market.”
Steve Garley, managing director UK and Europe, Sandals and Beaches Resorts