Hosted by six Carnival Corporation cruise brands, the stars were shining at the 5th UK Cruise Awards, held at the stunning Underglobe (under Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, on London’s South Bank) on Thursday 24 January 2019
More than 200 travel agents mingled with media and TV celebrities on an evening when the brand heads and sales teams from Carnival Cruise Lines, Cunard, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises, Princess Cruises and Seabourn were able to recognise and reward their top travel agency partners for their business and loyalty over the past year.
An energetic performance from BBC’s Greatest Dancer act Froback started the ceremony off with a bang. The awards were introduced by Josh Weinstein, and hosted for the fifth year by presenter Mark Durden-Smith. Each Carnival brand gave two awards, the first for “Partnership Development’ and the second ‘Outstanding Contribution’ (see list below). Other key agent partners were also highly commended in both categories.
The two final and very special award recipients were selected and presented on behalf of all the brands. The ‘Shining Star’ award – which recognises the outstanding contribution of an individual within the travel industry, was presented by ITV’s Richard Arnold and Seabourn Managing Director Lynn Narraway to Anna Perrott of Travel Bag. The final award of the evening, the Carnival UK “Trade Partner of the Year’ award was given by P&O Cruises President Paul Ludlow to the team at Iglu Cruise, and was collected by Simone Clarke.
The winners were as follows:-
- Carnival Cruise Lines (presented by Luke Smith)
- Partnership Development award – Virgin Holidays Cruises (Cruise Nation – Highly Commended)
Outstanding Contribution award – Cruise 118 (Iglu Cruise – Highly Commended)
- Cunard (presented by Gary Anslow)
- Partnership Development award – Cruise 118 (Kuoni – Highly Commended)
Outstanding Contribution award – ROL Cruise (Imagine Cruising – Highly Commended)
- Holland America Line (presented by Wendy Lahmich)
- Partnership Development award – Scotland’s Cruise Centre (Cruise.co.uk – Highly Commended)
Outstanding Contribution award – Trailfinders (Canadian Affair – Highly Commended)
- P&O Cruises (presented by Nathaniel Sherborne)
- Partnership Development award – Hays Travel (Cruise 118 – Highly Commended)
Outstanding Contribution award – Bolsover Cruise Club (ROL Cruise – Highly Commended)
- Princess Cruises (presented by Rachel Poultney)
- Partnership Development award – Imagine Cruises (Barrhead Travel – Highly Commended)
Outstanding contribution award – Iglu Cruise (Cruise 1st – Highly Commended)
- Seabourn (presented by Lynn Narraway)
- Partnership Development award – Six Star Cruises (ROL Cruise – Highly Commended)
Outstanding Contribution award – Sovereign Cruise Club (Trailfinders – Highly Commended)
- Shining Star award (presented by Richard Arnold & Lynn Narraway)
- Anna Perrott (Travelbag)
Congratulations to all our UK Cruise Award winners!