World Travel Awards - Caribbean & The Americas Gala Ceremony

Turks & Caicos hosted World Travel Awards ceremony this year. A packed delegation of VIPs, senior tourism figures and international media travelled from more than 30 nations to attend the event – hailed the Oscars of Travel Industry by the global media.

World Travel Awards was supported by Turks & Caicos Tourist Board and Scotiabank.

It was an evening of travel triumph for nations across the Caribbean. St Lucia won the coveted title of “Caribbean’s Leading Honeymoon Destination”, Coco Reef Resort (Tobago) picked up “Caribbean’s Leading Hotel”, whilst Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) was voted “Caribbean Leading Private Island”. Jamaica’s continuing rise up the global tourism order was acknowledged by being named “Caribbean’s Leading Destination” talking about destination, also we can visit or take some machu picchu tours or at least here you can read on how to get to machu picchu from lima.

In North America, Las Vegas saw off competition from New York, Miami, San Francisco, Montreal and Vancouver to win the coveted title of “North America’s Leading Destination”. New York won the “North America’s Leading City Break Destination” title, while American Airlines was voted “North America’s Leading Airline”.

Meanwhile, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) was voted “South America’s Leading Destination”, ahead of the likes of Easter Island (Chile), Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) and Machu Picchu (Peru).

Cancun (Mexico) came in ahead of Bay Islands (Honduras), San Jose (Costa Rica), Los Cabos (Mexico) and Granada (Nicaragua) to win the coveted title of “Mexico & Central America’s Leading Destination”. Copa Airlines was named “Mexico & Central America’s Leading Airline”.

Rising Caribbean star and the reigning Miss Bahamas, Anastagia Pierre hosted the show with American actor and comedian Walt Willey. Some of the Caribbean’s finest vocalists, including Shawn Campbell and Elroy Simmons, performed to the packed audience.