Make A Date With ‘Galileo Express Travel & Tourism’ Awards On November 23, In New Delhi

Be there on November 23 at the capital city, New Delhi to witness the Galileo Express Travel & Tourism Awards 2004, which will play host to professionals and celebrities across India with the spotlight focussed on the finest in the Indian travel fraternity.

After a phenomenal success of Galileo Express Travel & Tourism Awards in 2003, Galileo India, India's leading Global Distribution Services company for the airline and travel industries, along with Express Travel & Tourism from the Business Publications Division of the Indian Express Group, will echo this with a much awaited encore, spotlighting the crème de la crème of the travel industry professionals and raising the bar for those future aspirants to reach this ultimate pinnacle of proven calibre. This formal extravaganza, captained by Columbus (the symbol of the Galileo-Express Travel & Tourism Awards) is scheduled to set sail from Delhi in November 2004. As part of the course charted for this second voyage the awards will honour professionals over categories such as airlines, travel agencies, tour operators, tourism boards thus covering the entire spectrum.

Constructive criticism is always a welcome part of any successful endeavour and keeping this in mind we invited suggestions and feedback from the industry after the 2003 awards. In keeping with the transparent system we adhered to during our maiden voyage we hope to navigate our way into 2004 using this information garnered and incorporating it into our decision making process.

Following a series of meetings with the Express Travel & Tourism Advisory Board, with a crew of stalwarts like Ankur Bhatia, Vijay Chadda,Yogesh Chandra, Saroj Datta, Ashok Fenn, Subhash Goyal, Cyrus Guzder, Zubin Karkaria, Ashwini Kakkar, Khursheed Lam, Seema Luthra, Tej Sahni, Alok Sawhney, Ashish Kumar Singh, Prem Subramaniam both in Mumbai and Delhi, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd, consultants and research partners to this exclusive affair we have finalised the various criteria and categories. The nomination forms will be issued across all the segments of the industry.

The nomination criterion will focus on creative vision and work enhancement and will be measured against stringent qualitative and quantitative industry benchmarks to determine the highest standards of excellence practiced.

The winners once selected will be awarded at the 'Galileo-Express Travel & Tourism Awards night, If you would like to file your nomination and have not yet received the form, do write in to: editor@expresstravelandtourism.com / awards@expresstravelandtourism.com