Turks & Caicos to Host World Travel Awards

Turks and Caicos will hold this year´s World Travel Awards, World Travel Awards. Transformed from a sleepy fishing and farming community in the Caicos islands, and salt raking in the Turks Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands is now a shining beacon , with a rapidly expanding tourism sector.

With such a world class offering, the islands are a fitting venue for next year´s World Travel Awards 13th Annual Gala Ceremony on September 20, 2006.

Brainchild of British entrepreneur, Graham Cooke, World Travel Awards dates back to 1993, with the event being hosted in different destinations from New York to London, St. Lucia and Barbados and now the Turks and Caicos Islands. Voting is done online by 156,000 travel agencies worldwide.

World Travel Awards acknowledges and celebrates those organizations that have made the greatest contribution to the global tourism and travel trade. It also recognizes those who are driving the industry to greater heights and innovations.

“This is good news. Let this hit the front pages, the wires and every magazine, the Turks and Caicos has arrived. I am inviting our tourism partners to prepare themselves and make use of the enormous potential exposure,” Director of Tourism, Lindsey Musgrove said.