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Ionian & Aegean Island Holidays has been named in the British Travel Awards 2012 as the winner of “BEST SMALL TOUR OPERATOR TO HELLENIC EUROPE 2012”. The announcement was made on 1 November at a glamorous Gala Awards Dinner held at Battersea Evolution in London, attended by more than a thousand travel industry people.
Ionian & Aegean Island Holidays are a small independent tour operator based in North London with eight UK based employees selling exclusive package holidays to Greece and her islands. In 2011 we were honored to win the award for “Best Independent Tour Operator to Hellenic Europe”, so we are delighted to have won an award for the second year in a row.
Director, Alexandros Matsoukis says “We are very proud to receive such a prestigious award and would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote for us! We are passionate about Greece and we believe our holidays are a reflection of this”.
British Travel Awards’ chief executive Lorraine Barnes Burton said: “This year more than one million votes were cast by consumers to determine the winners of the coveted British Travel Awards. The Awards were created to reward travel companies, with the winning accolade being the benchmark for excellence when it comes to finding out who really is the best in the business of travel for the UK consumer. Ionian & Aegean Island Holidays is to be congratulated on their achievement.”
Companies were nominated by the public before being voted for by the British consumer, including readers of News International publications – The Times, Sunday Times, the Sun and the Sunday Sun – listeners of Global Radio stations, including LBC and readers of the British Travel Awards magazine Check-In http://www.magazine.btacheckin.com. The voting process and results are overseen, scrutinized and audited by Deloitte LLP.
