TIA's Odyssey Awards: Seeking Travel Industry's Best
MARCH 28, 2008. The Travel Industry Association and National Geographic Traveler are seeking the industry's best domestic and international marketing, advertising and public awareness campaigns and promotions, along with outstanding sustainable tourism programs.
---| Did your marketing or advertising program generate better-than-expected results?
---| Has a program that you created help improve the image of the United States?
---| Is your company committed to and making a difference for sustainable tourism?
If you answered "yes" to any of the questions, then you should enter the 2008 Odyssey Awards competition, which recognizes the highest achievements in the global travel and tourism industry. TIA, in partnership with National Geographic Traveler, is now accepting entries.
Here is a complete list of the 2008 award categories:
---| U.S. Domestic Travel Advertising
---| International Travel Advertising
---| Online Advertising
---| Partnership for America
---| International Inbound Discover America Marketing
---| Domestic Discover America Marketing
National Geographic Traveler's Travel to a Better World Awards:
---| Geotourism Award for Sustaining the Environment of a Place
---| Geotourism Award for Sustaining an Indigenous Culture or Community
---| Sustainable Tourism Messages in Advertising Award
Winners will be featured in ads in National Geographic Traveler and Travel Weekly. Special recognition will also take place at a gala dinner during TIA's Marketing Outlook Forum in Portland, Oregon, October 27-30, 2008. Click here to see pictures of the 2007 winners receive their awards.
Visit www.TIA.org/odysseyawards for more information and to download an entry form. The deadline for submissions is June 16, 2008.
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