Great Prizes And Awards To Be Presented At Enter 2014 For Innovative Destinations And Technology-savvy Companies

The International Federation for the Information Technology and Travel and Tourism (IFITT) is proud to award innovative destination marketing organisations (DMO's) and technology-savvy companies/organizations with attractive prizes. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) November 01, 2013 - The Innovative Destination Award and the Outstanding Industry Contribution Award will be presented at the awards ceremony of the ENTER 2014 Conference, taking place in Dublin, Ireland from January 21-24, 2014.

The Innovative Destination Award will be given to a destination marketing organisation (DMO) at a local, regional or national level that has successfully integrated technology. Organizations may be nominated by IFITT members and non-members, who need to send a short description of the DMO (~100 words), a description of the innovation (~250 words) as well as contact details to Ulrike Gretzel at ugretzel ( @ ) uow dot edu dot au by November 10, 2013 dot

The Outstanding Industry Contribution Award will be given to companies/organizations that have made a significant contribution to the growth and success of technology adoption, integration, or use in the tourism industry. It will be presented at the ENTER 2014 conference in two categories: one for small enterprises (less than 50 employees and/or less than Euro 10 million turnover) and one for medium/large enterprises (more than 50 employees and/or more than Euro 10 million turnover). To nominate a company IFITT members and non-members are asked to send a short description of the company (~100 words), a description of the innovation (~250 words) and contact details to Ulrike Gretzel at ugretzel ( @ ) uow dot edu dot au by November 10, 2013 dot

After the nomination a two-stage open voting process for both awards will be conducted on the IFITT Website. In the first round from November 11-15 IFITT members and non-members will select the top three DMO's and companies/organisations. For the second round of voting the top three nominees will be asked to prepare a short video presentation featuring their innovation, which they need show at the ENTER 2014 conference. .

The winners of both awards will receive an award trophy, a certificate, a ticket to the ENTER 2014 conference gala dinner, an acknowledgement on the IFITT and ENTER websites and a corporate IFITT membership for one year.

The top three nominees for both, the Innovative Destination Award and the Outstanding Industry Contribution Award (in both categories), will receive a 50% discount on exhibition space during the ENTER 2014 conference. DMOs and organizations can contact Patrick Horan at patrick.horan ( @ ) dit dot ie for details regarding the exhibition space dot

More details about the IFITT prizes and awards can be found at http://enter2014.org/IFITT-prizes-Awards-2014-123.htm.

IFITT President Dimitrios Buhalis says:"With our great prizes and awards we not only offer incentives for destinations and companies to attend the ENTER 2014 conference but also provide a way to reward them for being best practice examples of implementing travel and tourism technology trends. In the past years we noticed that those destinations and organisations that found innovative ways to integrate the latest tourism technologies were always highly successful and ahead of their competition."

ENTER 2014 will take place in the Chartered Accountants House from January 21-24, 2014 in Dublin, Ireland. Registrations can be made at: http://www.enter2014.org/Registration-64.htm. Registrations before November 8, 2013 will receive a big discount.

For more information please contact: Professor Dimitrios Buhalis (IFITT President) at ifitt ( @ ) ifitt dot org or dbuhalis ( @ ) bournemouth dot ac.uk.

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