Voting opens for World Travel Awards' 2013 Travel Technology Nominees.

Online voting has now opened and the organisers of the awards are encouraging travel, tourism and hospitality professionals as well as business and leisure travellers to submit votes to determine those companies and organisations who excel in in the Travel Technology sector of travel, tourism and hospitality.

Hailed as the “Oscars of the travel industry”, the awards seek to identify and reward excellence and innovation in the technology which supports all aspects of the travel industry.

New Awards in World Travel Awards 2013, World’s Leading Flight Comparison Website, World’s Leading Hotel Comparison Website, , World’s Leading Travel App, World’s Leading Online Travel Agency Website with many other new categories. Well known  names competing include Amadeus, Expedia, Datalex,Lastminute.com, trivago and many more.

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/vote, individual professions or regular travellers can cast a vote for their choices of companies for an award in 21  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.  Of  mobile telephone users 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  not only on laptops, but also does so on smartphones and tablets, so indicating the move away from traditional methods of booking hotels, flights, cruises ferries or car hire.

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

About World Travel Awards

Hailed as “The Oscars of the Travel Industry”, World Travel its 20th Anniversary this year and is acknowledged across the globe as the ultimate travel accolade, as it continues to recognise, acknowledge and reward those brands that are pushing the boundaries of industry excellence.

WTA’s global media partner network includes International Herald Tribune,TV5Monde, CNBC Arabiya, Newsweek, World Travel Channel, Outlook Traveller, Travel & Leisure China, Khaleej Times, Trade Arabia, TTN, Trav Talk India, Publituris, ASTA Network, Breaking Travel News, Travel Daily News International, Focus on Travel News and Passport Magazine. This global media partner network has a monthly readership of 1.7 million and a TV audience reach of 90 million.

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