NOMINATIONS for this year’s National Travel Industry Awards (NTIA) are now open, with several categories expanded, including cruise. The Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) has been collaborating with the new NTIA Custodians, including Norwegian Cruise Line Director of Sales Damian Borg, to make this year’s awards “better than ever”,...
NOMINATIONS for this year’s National Travel Industry Awards (NTIA) are now open, with several categories expanded, including cruise.
The Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) has been collaborating with the new NTIA Custodians, including Norwegian Cruise Line Director of Sales Damian Borg, to make this year’s awards “better than ever”, with several recommendations and categorical restructures made to “better reflect the industry”.
Category 29 – ‘Most Popular Ocean Cruise Operator’, and Category 30 – ‘Most Popular River Cruise Operator’ are new for this year, while Category 7 – ‘Most Outstanding Sales Executive – Cruise’ will also recognise excellence within the sector.
Wholesalers specialising in cruise are also eligible for Category 23 – ‘Most Outstanding Wholesaler – Product / Service’.
In total there will be up to 36 award categories for NTIA 2023, including 27 “Most Outstanding” judged categories, seven “Most Popular” voted categories, and two “People’s Choice” consumer campaigns.
ATAS Accreditation will be a prerequisite for travel consultant and agency categories, as well as tour operators and wholesalers.
This year’s NTIAs will also be introducing an awards management portal to streamline the nominee experience and make available the judging criteria to best craft applications.
Judging for the “Most Outstanding” Awards will follow the same two-step process, with finalists determined from submissions and judging from a panel selected by the NTIA Custodians.
“Most Popular” Supplier categories will be opened to industry voting, with the top five confirmed as finalists, and the top-voted suppliers announced as the winner.
“Our NTIA Custodians have been hard at work collaborating with AFTA to preserve the integrity of the NTIAs while continuing to evolve the process of recognising and rewarding excellence in Australia’s travel sector,” AFTA Chief Executive Officer Dean Long said.
“These changes best reflect the expansion of scope of our industry and allow for the recognition of excellence across all parts of the travel industry sector.”
“As the pre-eminent awards for our industry and given the significant value that corporate and consumer Australia places on the NTIAs, these changes will serve to enhance the reputation of our finalists and winners as the very best in class for 2023.”
Nominations will close at 5pm AEST on 14 Jul – for more information and to nominate, CLICK HERE.
