On Monday January 17 Travel Weekly honoured the trade’s favourite companies at a spectacular Globe Travel Awards ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House hotel.
We asked a few of the winners how it felt to pick up a Globe trophy…
| “This award shows how important agents are to us. We don’t get everything right all the time but what we do is listen to the trade and this award means we get it right.” – Jo Rzymowska, vice-president, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises Winner, best mainstream cruise company |
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| “This award is more important than in previous years because the category has been widened and includes river cruising.” – Kathryn Beadle, managing director, Hurtigruten Winner, best specialist cruise company |
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| “Its a huge honour to win. It validates everything we do – we live and breath travel agents.” – Stuart Nassos, managing director, Holiday Autos Winner, best car rental company |
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| “There has been a lot of investment in product investment and innovations. There has been lots of focus from the team and great support from retail.” – Richard Calvert, managing director of mainstream tour operations, Thomas Cook Winner, best short haul operator |
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| “It’s been a fantastic year for us and we’re really pleased to have been awarded this award from Travel Weekly. There are lots of surprises in store for 2011 so watch this space.” – James Lee, marketing manager, easyJet Joint winner, best short haul airline |
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| “Its the first time we’ve won this award – it’s absolutely new ground. I guess its a reward for all the hard work of the team has put in and it’s recognition of the team’s efforts ensuring they deliver the best products for our customers through our best product distibution channel – our agents.” – Manuel Mascarenhas, managing director, Wendy Wu Winner, best specialist tour operator |
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| “This is, for me, one of the big highlights of my career to have this recognition from the agents community. I’d like to say a big thank you from me and the team at Celebrity – it’s a very special moment.” – Michael English, head of sales, Celebrity Cruises Winner, best premium cruise company |
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| “Its been an interesting year! But clearly the agents and consumers still have confidence in us. I’m really pleased – its a very good award to get and in a very competitive sector too.” – Richard Tams, UK and Ireland sales head, British Airways Joint winner, best short haul airline |
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| “There have been lots of changes at gold medal and we’re looking forward to an exciting 2011. We’re looking forward to working more closely with the trade and increasing our range of hotels and car hire, giving agents even more to sell for 2011.” – David Robinson, product and commercial director, Gold Medal Winner, best consolidator |  |
