I’ve now thankfully recovered from a fabulous evening at The Dorchester thanks to Simon Ferguson and Charlotte Davies at Travolution.
The event has now grown into the much larger surroundings since its inauguration a couple of years ago, and had garnered 450 of the top Travel digerati to attend.
Emily Maitlis from the Beeb was our hostess for the evening and after an opening salvo of gags (including one about what brand name the merger of Cunard and Aer Lingus might create – very...erm...tongue in....erm...cheek!) she managed to hold court and keep everyone’s attention right until all the awards had been received.
The Travolution Achievement Award went to Stephen Kaufer, President and CEO of TripAdvisor and the one to watch, who I’d been jolly impressed with when I met him in New York at AdWeek last week, was Alex Gisbert from Expedia.
For a full line up of winners check out the Travolution site.
Thanks again to Simon and Charlotte for asking me to do a bit of judging, and no thanks to Phil Stelter from Bigmouthmedia for pressing that last Whisky Cocktail into my hand at 1.30am which rendered yesterday pretty much a write off! :-)
