BT Visit London Awards 2009: Categories and Shortlisted Entries

BT Visit London Awards 2009 Shortlist

Accessible Tourism Award

• Arsenal Football Club
• Direct Enquiries Ltd
• Southbank Centre
• St Martin-in-the-Fields
• The British Postal Museum & Archive
• Greenwich+Docklands Festivals

Sustainable Tourism Award

• Natural History Museum
• Cavendish Hotel
• ExCeL London
• Cavendish Conference Venues
• ZSL London Zoo
• Earls Court & Olympia

Business Venue of the Year

• Congress Centre
• ExCeL London
• Chelsea Football Club
• Natural History Museum
• Cavendish Conference Venues
• Emirates Stadium
• Royal College of Physicians
• SEA LIFE London Aquarium

Corporate Event of the Year

• Maybourne Hotel Group – Event Organisers Party at the Berkeley, 6 April 2009
• Powwow Events – Crowe Horwath International Annual Meeting 2008
• ExCeL London – The London Summit: Growth, Stability & Jobs
• Vinopolis – The Apprentice Final 2009
• The Brewery – Glaston-Brewery
• Havering Community Safety Partnership – Havering Nightlife Awards 2009

Consumer Event of the Year

• National Boat Show – London International Boat Show
• Hard Rock Café – Hard Rock Calling
• Westminster City Council – West End Live
• London Borough of Enfield Council – New River Festival
• Winter Wonderland
• Greenwich+Docklands Festival – Greenwich+Docklands International Festival

Sports Tourism Award

• Chelsea Football Club – Chelsea Football Club Stadium Tours and Museum
• Keith Prowse – The Ashes 2009 Series
• Redbridge Cycling Centre – Inspir8tion – Olympic Handover with Beijing
• Arsenal Football Club / Emirates Stadium – Emirates Cup 2008
• Sandown Park Racecourse
• England and Wales Cricket Board – ICC World Twenty20 England 2009

Marketing/PR Campaign of the Year

• Westfield – Launch of Westfield London
• Science Museum – Science Museum Lates
• Natural History Museum – Darwin Exhibition
• Luchford APM – Re-launch of Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel
• The British Library – The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic
• aka Promotions Ltd – Sister Act – A Divine Musical Comedy
• Historic Royal Palaces: Tower of London and Hampton Court Palace – Henry 500
• ZSL London Zoo – Animal Adventure

Best Gastronomic Experience

• St Paul’s Cathedral operated by Harbour and Jones
• The Grove – Colette's Restaurant
• Paternoster Chop House
• Galvin at Windows Restaurant
• Vinopolis
• Bingham

Outstanding Customer Service Award

• The Cavendish Hotel – Operations Team
• Victoria and Albert Museum – Mick Mavani
• BBC Shows and Tours – BBC Shows and Tours Team
• Royal College of Physicians – Meetings and Events team
• Madame Tussauds London – Operations team
• National Maritime Museum – Nicholas Babbs

Budget Accommodation of the Year

• London Heathrow Premier Inn
• Palmers Lodge Boutique Backpackers
• Generator Hostel London
• Think Apartments Limited
• Premier Inn London King's Cross St Pancras
• YHA London St Pancras

Large Hotel of the Year

• The Athenaeum
• The Milestone Hotel
• Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel
• InterContinental London Park Lane
• St Martins Lane, A Morgans Original
• The Langham, London

Small Hotel/B&B of the Year

• The Lord Milner London
• SACO Holborn/SACO Serviced Apartments
• The Colonnade
• Bingham
• 196 Bishopsgate Serviced Apartments

Visitor Attraction of the Year

• The Home of Charles Darwin
• ZSL London Zoo
• Imperial War Museum London
• Whitechapel Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery
• National Maritime Museum

Best Tourism Experience

• Way2GoGuides
• The Big Bus Company
• Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
• BBC Tours
• London Dungeon
• National Maritime Museum