Inaugural Cinnamon Travel Blogger awards
Winners of Best Food Blog
Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts in partnership with the national carrier SriLankan Airlines concluded their 2nd Cinnamon Travel Bloggers Conference-Cinnamon TBCasia on June 7 at Cinnamon Grand Colombo. The inaugural Cinnamon Travel Blogger awards followed the event.
Over 700 submissions were shortlisted to 30 finalists for the 10 categories being awarded. The Judging panel comprised Jens Thraenhart –Founder of Digital Innovation Asia (DIA); Mario Hardy – Chief Executive Officer at Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA); Jan Tissera – President of TravelClick International; Sally Davey –Founder of Tripbod.com; Debbie Hindle – Managing Director of Four Travel and Dileep Mudadeniya – Head of Brand Marketing at Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts.
The Gold winners for the Cinnamon Travel Blogger awards :
1. Best Optimization of Social Media- Melvin Boecher of Traveldudes
2. Best Responsible Tourism Blog- Hal & Christina of Travel For Wildlife
3. Best travel photography blog- Adam & Hannah of Getting Stamped
4. Best travel video blog – Jordan & Jenna of Stoked for Saturday
5. Best Food Blog- Niamh Shields of Eat Like a Girl and Jodi Ettenberg of Legal Nomads
6. Best Luxury Travel blog- Jayne Gorman of Girl Tweets World
7. Best Airline blog- Alvin Lim of Alvinology
8. Best writing in a Travel blog- Kristin Addis of Be My Travel Muse
9. Best Up-coming Travel Blogger- Marta Kulesza of In a Faraway Land
10. Best Travel Blog of the year- Dave & Deb of The Planet D and Kiersten Rich of The Blonde Abroad
Winners of Best Travel Blog of the year