Awards

Online travel agency airtickets.gr was honored for its success and significant contribution to Greek e-commerce at the second annual “e-volution” awards, held at the Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel on Wednesday, 5 December.

Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, has been awarded the prestigious Centre for Aviation (CAPA) Airline of the Year 2012; the third time that Emirates has won the award.

The Six Senses Spa at elounda SA hotels & resorts has been recognized internationally as one of the world’s great leading spas by a number of highly-regarded awards.

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, recently won the title of Best Long-haul Airline at Belgium’s 15th annual Travel Magazine Awards held in Antwerp.

Club Hotel Casino Loutraki recently received two honorary distinctions in the framework of “Bravo 2012,” an open dialogue for sustainable development, for its “Perception Index” of its corporate responsibility activities in the categories: Market and Best New Social Report.

Heraklion Port shined during the leading cruise industry event Seatrade Med 2012, held 27-29 November at Marseille, France, as it came in second in the “Port of the Year” category at the sixth edition of the Seatrade Insider Cruise Awards.

Condé Nast Traveller Russia named the Sani Resort in Chalkidiki as the Best Family Resort in the World at an event held on 16 November at the Shelk Event Hall in Moscow, Russia.

After more than 57 years devoted to international hospitality, the lifetime work of Gabriel Escarrer Juliá, chairman and founder of Meliá Hotels International, was recently acknowledged with the UNWTO Ulysses Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The Greek islands came in second place among the preferences of readers of the German monthly Diners Club Magazin in the “European Destinations of the year” category.

The NJV Athens Plaza in Syntagma, Athens, was honored recently by Preferred Hotel Group, on behalf of “GIFTTS Pineapple Awards,” with the Certificate GIFTTS 2012 – PHILANTHROPY award in recognition to the hotel’s outstanding commitment to philanthropy.