Travolution Awards 2008
TRAVEL INFORMATION AWARDS
Best Meta Search/Price Comparison Website
Winner: Kayak
“Kayak has developed an easy-to-use interface and the user experience is supported by some incredible pieces of functionality. The site is innovative and pushing the boundaries of travel search.”
Best Travel Portal
Winner: TripAdvisor
“TripAdvisor is still the market leader in providing valuable reviews and content to an enormous cross section of consumers. The recent additions of new functionality are welcome and innovative.”
Highly commended: TravellersPoint.com
“The site is doing some fascinating work with the use of Wikis and destination content and should be applauded for its innovation.”
Best Use of Technology
Winner: Dorling Kindersley
“DK has utilised cutting edge e-publishing techniques to produce a flexible and simple service for visitors to its website. It takes the in-resort guidebook to the next level.”
SM@RT AGENT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Fleetway Travel
BEST TRAVEL CONSUMER BLOG
Winner: Travel Rants
“Darren Cronian has single-handedly set the benchmark to which other consumer-focussed blogs should aspire. Controversial, relevant, thorough and, perhaps most tellingly, much better than something mainstream media organisations are trying to achieve.”
NEWCOMER AWARDS
Best New Online Travel Company
Winner: Worldreviewer.com
“In a market increasingly crowded with new content and experience-led sites, Worldreviewer stands out a mile. It has used exclusive editorial and excellent tools to wonderful effect and ensured its commercial partnerships are relevant to the target market.”
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Alessandro Inversini 