This is your last chance to enter the British Coach Tourism Awards 2018 (BCTAs), as the deadline is on 17 November.
Coach tour operators, GTOs, attractions, destinations and industry suppliers are urged to get their entries in ready for the judging, which takes place over two days in mid-December.
New categories for 2018 include Dining Experience, and our first Reader’s Choice award, for Theatre Production.
To enter, businesses should go online, complete the entry form, and send it back to us with an executive summary, and any supporting information – which might include brochures, testimonials, photos, videos, groups incentive information, and welcome packs. Full details of how to enter and what to include are online.
The full category list is:
- Coach Friendly Destination
- Coach Friendly Attraction
- European Coach Friendly Attraction
- Cross-Sea Carrier
- River and Inland Cruise Operator
- Heritage Railway
- Accommodation Provider (independent hotels)
- Accommodation Provider (hotel groups)
- Tour Wholesaler and Industry Supplier
- Dining Experience (NEW)
- Theatre Production – reader’s choice award (NEW)
- Holiday Programme
- Day Excursion Programme
- Coach Tourism Innovation of the Year
- Coach Tourism Professional of the Year
- Coach Tour Driver of the Year
- Coach Tour Operator – Small Fleet (1-5 coaches)
- Coach Tour Operator – Medium Fleet (6-15 coaches)
- Coach Tour Operator – Large Fleet (more than 15 coaches)
- The British Coach Tourism Recognition Award.
The BCTAs will take place on 21 March 2018 at the National Motorcycle Museum, adjacent to the NEC, Birmingham. It's renowned as an exceptional, entertaining evening, celebrating the best of the coach tourism industry.
It takes place during the British Tourism & Travel Show at the NEC, on 21-22 March 2018.
Chaired by Group Tourism & Travel magazine Editor Jessamy Chapman, the judging panel is made up of coach tourism experts: Epsom Coaches' Steve Whiteway, Chris Wales of the Coach Tourism Association, Antony Amos from UKinbound, and Mark King, Chairman of the British Guild of Tourist Guides.
Brought to you by Group Tourism & Travel magazine, the BCTAs is organised by Diversified Communications UK.
- Full details of how to enter are online at www.britishcoachawards.co.uk
