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Seatrade Cruise Awards 2016 winners named in TenerifeSeatrade Cruise Awards 2016 winners named in Tenerife

Port of the Year went to ABP Southampton, and Destination of the Year is Singapore.

Anne Kalosh, Editor, Seatrade Cruise News & Senior Associate Editor, Seatrade Cruise Review

September 22, 2016

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Credit: Seatrade Cruise News

The Seatrade Cruise Awards 2016, principal sponsor Oracle Hospitality, were presented at the Seatrade Cruise Med Party in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Thursday night. MedCruise sponsored the Environmental Initiative Award.

More than 100 entries were received from around the world. The winners were selected from three shortlisted finalists in each category by an independent judging panel.

Entries shortlisted for Port of the Year were Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and Ports of Tenerife (Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife), while Cruise Baltic and The Great Lakes Cruise Region were finalists for Destination of the Year.

Supplier of the Year finalists were DNV GL for ECO Insight: Using Big Data For Fleet Performance Management and MJM Group. Environmental Initiative Award finalists were ABB for its Linear Flow Azipod and Carnival Corp. & plc for its 2020 Sustainability Goals.

Finalists for the Innovative Shorex Award were Ambassatours Gray Line's 'Come Fly a Kite at the Alexander Graham Bell Museum' and ID Tours New Zealand's 'Ancient Maori Rock Art, Marae and Family Lunch.'

The awards were announced by Mary Bond, managing director for publishing, Seatrade, and presented by Seatrade gm Andrew Williams and Tony Heuer, vp, Global Cruise, Oracle Hospitality Cruise. MedCruise president Kristijan Pavic presented the Environmental Initiative Award.

Seatrade Cruise Personalities Awards were also announced.

 

About the Author

Anne Kalosh

Editor, Seatrade Cruise News & Senior Associate Editor, Seatrade Cruise Review

Anne Kalosh covers global stories, reporting both breaking and in-depth news on cruising's significant people, places, ships and trends. A sought-after expert on cruising, she has moderated conferences around the world, including the high-profile State of the Industry panel at Seatrade Cruise Global. She created and led the acclaimed itinerary-planning case study for Seatrade's cruise master classes held at Cambridge and Oxford universities. She has been the cruise columnist for AFAR.com, and her freelance stories have appeared in a wide range of publications, from The New York Times to The Miami Herald.

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