Seychelles a finalist in the Travel Bulletin Star Awards 2016 |02 September 2016

Seychelles has been voted as a finalist in the Travel Bulletin Star Awards 2016 in the Star Country/Destination for Luxury Holidays category alongside Barbados, Dubai, Maldives, Mauritius and St Lucia.

The voting, open exclusively to UK high street multiple, independent, online and home based travel agents, takes place over a six-week period from April 29 to June 3, 2016. All agents are invited to champion those companies they consider to be the very best by voting for them in a range of industry categories, so no nominations or registrations are required by suppliers......it is a completely fair and open vote.

On Friday June 24, a shortlist of companies with the most votes in each category were announced on the Travel Bulletin website and all finalists were notified in writing.

The outright winners, those companies that have successfully attracted the most votes, will then be revealed on Monday September 5 at London's prestigious 5-Star Langham Hotel.

The manager for the Seychelles Tourism Board office in London Tinaz Wadia said: “We are delighted to have been chosen as a finalist Star Country / Destination for Luxury Holidays Category and recognised by the UK travel trade. It is an honour to have been selected as a finalist among other prestigious destinations.”

Alain St Ange, the Tourism and Culture Minister of Seychelles and Sherin Francis, the chief executive of the island's Tourism Board were both overwhelmed with this news saying that Seychelles is today more visible than ever before and that resulted in Seychelles being relevant as a tourism destination and one with an impeccable safety label.

Travel Bulletin is the leading weekly magazine for UK travel agents. Launched in 1975, Travel Bulletin covers all the latest news from every sector of the travel industry be it from tour operators, airlines, cruise companies, hotels, tourist offices, ferry and rail operators, car hire companies or theme parks and is deemed as essential reading for all travel agents in the UK.

 This year the Travel Bulletin is celebrating 20 Years of Star Awards! To mark this special anniversary, many new awards are being introduced.

The Travel Bulletin Star Awards is the UK travel trade's most prestigious awards programme rewarding every sector of the tourism industry. They serve to recognise, reward and celebrate excellence by acknowledging those suppliers that have flourished over the last 12 months and have provided the best products and services possible to UK travel agents.