RULES FOR NOMINEES

For proceeding with participation, you need to choose a category of the Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards 2023 nominations and register. Then you should fill in all fields, submit for sending it to organizers and sign online agreement with the organizer. Registration will be finalized and activated after making payment of Administrative and Advertisement Fee (Please, see below)

Please, kindly note that you can submit an application only for two categories. You are encouraged to enter the category that best reflects your core business. Participation is open for the players from all regions of the country. Nominees must be based or operate in Georgia.

An entry cannot be moved into another category following the closing date supply of submissions. If the number of registered users is less than 5, the nomination is considered to be canceled.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

• Hotels, hostels, apartments, guest houses

• Travel agencies, tour operators, tourism associations

• Restaurants and cafes

• Wineries, wine sellers, wine bars

• Online travel portals, applications and bloggers

• Companies who are focused towards the hospitality industry or tourism sector, who specialize tourism services

Participation is open for the players from all regions of the country and the chances of winning for each participant are equal.

WHY ENTER?

Would you like:

• To stand out from the crowd?

• A raised profile with the media?

• To reward your team and boost morale?

• To attract the best staff?

• To go forward to the Welcome to Georgia! Awards?

• A cause for celebration?

If you have answered “yes” to any of these questions, you should be nominee of the Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards

MAIN STEPS IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE AWARD:

• Choose a category and make registration

• Sign online agreement with the organizer

• Make Administrative & Advertisement fee

• Receive login and password to access to personal online nominee cabinet from organizer

• Prepare the Motivation Letter in PDF for Jury Expert Board

• Upload Presentation, 4 image and logo via nominee’s online cabinet (all detailed information and recommendation to prepare the presentation for assesment are indicated in the personal cabinets of the nomineez)

• Celebrate your success (gallery)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ADVERTISEMENT FEE

After receiving filled in form the organizer will send for you an invoice for the administrative and advertisement fee within the Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards. You have to make one-time fee – 500 GEL per one category (included VAT). Administrative and advertisement fee is non-refundable.

WHAT INCLUDES TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND ADVERTISEMENT FEE / BENEFITS FOR PARTICIPANTS?

• Publication results of the Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards in the media.

• Publication list of the nominees, finalists and winners in the Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards Report which is distributed in different places of Georgia and abroad to make promo of the Award winners and participants.

• Posting list of the nominees, finalists, winners in the project official Facebook page and website;

• Posting nominees, finalist and winners logo on the big screen at the Official Ceremony;

• In case of becoming Finalist or Winner of the Project the participants will be integrated in an additional worldwide marketing campaign of the project.

• Announcing all nominees, finalist and winners during the Official Ceremony od Awarding which will take place on December 2023 (the venue and date will be informed by organizers additionally).

• 2 people of your company attendance during the Gala Dinner the Official Ceremony od Awarding which will take place on December 2023 (the venue and date will be informed by organizers additionally).

PROVIDING MATERIALS FOR JURY EXPERT BOARD

According to the reccomendations nominee needs to prepare presentation in Georgian or English. Nominee must ensure their information refers specifically to the product and category they are entering. Each section must be completed if nominee wish to score maximum points of category. Only completed entries will be considered by Jury Expert Board. The Organizer recommends for nominee to indicate all information for more understanding of the Jury Expert Board.

The registered nominee has the right to access, correct or remove their information till October 15th 2023. An access for nominees’ personal cabinet will be closed after 15th of October.

KEY DATES

Providing of the Motivation Letter, answers and materials in accordance to the questionnaire: till 15th October, 2023

December 2023: the announcement of the finalists and winners of the Awards at the 9th Ceremony of the Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards.

THE PROCESS OF THE NOMINEES’ ASSESSMENT

Independence and impeccable reputation are the core values of the Award.

Participants will be assessed by an independent Jury Expert Board which consists of the experts of the world and local travel, culture and hospitality market. Jury Expert Board is separated according to categories depending on the kind of their main professional activities.

The Jury Expert Board will give each nominee points based on the criteria relevant to each nomination.

An Independent Auditor of the Award monitors assessment process, calculates the number of points awarded to each nominee by the Jury Expert Board and determines the finalists and the winner in each nomination. At the end of the assessment Jury Expert Board gathers in order to reveal the Finalists of Awards’ competition 2023. The Final Results and scores of all participants will be discussed among the Jury Expert Board at the round table before the Official Awards Ceremony to ensure the final results of the Award.

AUDIT

An Independent Auditor of the Award monitors assessment process, calculates the number of points awarded by the Jury Expert Board to each nominee and determines the finalists and the winner in each nomination. That means WELCOME TO GEORGIA! NATIONAL TOURISM AWARDS is totally transparent and all processes are being truly according the Methodology of the Awards project.

NOTIFICATION OF RESULTS

The Finalists and winners will be announced at the Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards 2023 OFFICIAL CEREMONY Of Awarding (the date and venue of the Ceremony will be announced by organizers additionnaly).

PRIVACY POLICY

All the information that is collected and held by Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards is only for the purpose of administrating the Awards’ Project.

We wish you success!

Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards Team

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