World Travel Awards Launches on Youtube

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. October 14, 2008

JULY 6, 2007. The World Travel Awards, the leading and largest accolade programme for the global tourism industry has launched a Broadband Video channel on YouTube, the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos. The channel can be found at www.youtube.com/worldtravelawards.

The World Travel Awards channel on YouTube is part of the continuing expansion of the accolade's original coverage of the travel industry's top players on television, Internet and distribution platforms, including BBC World and other global networks. The initial YouTube launch includes over 30 videos from the recent World Travel Awards regional gala ceremony in Abu Dhabi at the Emirates Palace Hotel as well as other videos from past award ceremonies in London and New York.

The channel already has an increasing number of subscribers and close to 1,000 views and www.youtube.com/worldtravelawards has only just been launched.

Manon Han, Vice President of World Travel Awards, states: "We are pleased to have our own channel on the number one video sharing site in the world. This is a very positive extension of our successful relationship with cutting edge media."

Han adds, "The YouTube platform will allow nominees and winners to subscribe to the World Travel Awards channel, so that each time we post new videos of our regional and global gala ceremonies and award winners, our subscribers can watch the best that the travel industry has to offer on YouTube."

Please subscribe to the www.youtube.com/worldtravelawards channel in order to get the latest World Travel Awards videos.

The World Travel Awards were conceived in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world's travel and tourism industry. Now in their fourteenth year, travel professionals and discerning travellers have come to regard the World Travel Awards as the very best endorsement that a travel product could hope to receive. With thousands of votes cast by travel professionals from 167,000 travel agencies, tour & transport companies and tourism organisations in over 163 countries across the globe, winning a World Travel Award has become one of the highest accolades a travel product or organisation can achieve.

The World Travel Awards are especially coveted as, uniquely, the votes are cast globally by fellow professionals. With trophies awarded in over 1,000 different categories, the World Travel Awards are undoubtedly the world's most comprehensive awards celebration. Attended by top executives of winning companies, the events are highly regarded and well-established as a forum that brings together all areas of travel and tourism in recognition of their achievements. www.worldtravelawards.com

YouTube: Founded in February 2005, YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.youtube.com and across the Internet through websites, blogs, and e-mail. YouTube currently delivers more than 100 million video views every day with 65,000 new videos uploaded daily and it has quickly become the leading destination on the Internet for video entertainment.