Entries open for World Travel Awards' 2013 Travel Technology nominations

World Travel Awards is issuing a call to those organisations that aspire to be the best of the best in the business to participate in the World Travel Awards 2013 Travel Technology nominations.

World Travel Awards seeks to identify and reward excellence and innovation in the travel industry.
 
New Awards in World Travel Awards 2013, include World’s Leading Flight Booking Website, World’s Leading Flight Comparison Website, World’s Leading Hotel Comparison Website, World’s Leading Hotel Website, World’s Leading New Travel App, World’s Leading Online Travel Agency Website and other new categories.

This fast moving section of the global travel industry brings innovative new developments almost daily and World Travel Awards is looking to highlight the leading companies responsible. By visiting www.worldtravelawards.com/nominate, companies can nominate themselves or other companies for an award in 26 categories, so shining a spotlight however briefly on the backroom boys and girls of the travel business.

Worldwide Research Groups are seeing constant growth in the Technology sector driven by Consumer demand and definite trends are emerging. Mobile owners who book travel 53% use a single device (smartphone, tablet, or laptop) to do so, according to results from a new JiWire report. The study indicates that mobile devices are heavily used for booking travel, with 52% claiming to have booked travel on a smartphone (23%) or tablet (29%). But mobiles are also being used for research, starting a cross-device journey that most often ends on laptops, but also does so on smartphones and tablets.

There are 8 categories, and 11 new Awards have been announced. Nominees are from across the Globe and deadline for Nominations close on September 15th 2013.

Nominees can be found at https://www.worldtravelawards.com/nominees/2013/travel-technology