Entries to the 2021 Travel Retail Awards, the industry’s only consumer-voted awards, have now closed.

Details of the 2021 TRBusiness Travel Retail Awards ceremony have been announced on TRBusiness.com. View the finalists and winners here.

The 2022 Travel Retail Awards will open to nominations during the first quarter of the year. Details will be announced on TRBusiness.com.

The 2021 TRBusiness Travel Retail Awards ceremony took place on Tuesday 22 September at the Hilton London Paddington Hotel during the TR Consumer Forum. Read more here.

The 2022 Travel Retail Awards will take place in Cannes on Tuesday 4 October.

The venue will be announced during 2022.

Cost per entry remains unchanged at £245 GBP. Entries are now closed.

Please note that all submissions can be modified and updated up until the closing date, using the reference number allocated when you register.

Notes on entering:

Products

All entry submissions are to be submitted and managed via our online portal – users can submit multiple or single entries, upload images, provide all product information, plus you will receive a unique code, enabling you to re-visit your entries and make amendments should you need to do so.

*Please note airports are automatically entered based on data provided by m1nd-set’s database of international airports.

For each product entered into the awards, we will require five product samples to be sent to the TRBusiness headquarters in the UK. The postal address will be provided once your entries are successfully submitted. All samples will be distributed to the judges for touching, testing and tasting as part of the judging process.

TRBusiness will therefore not be able to return the samples provided for the awards.

The deadline for sending samples is Friday 25 June.

PLEASE NOTE THAT COMPANIES SUBMITTING NOMINATIONS IN THE PRODUCT AWARDS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL CUSTOMS CHARGES WHEN SENDING SAMPLES. THESE CHARGES ARE TO BE PAID IN ADVANCE.

Thank you for your understanding.

 

Each product entered will be submitted to be reviewed by 2,000 international travelling shoppers, sourced from m1nd-set’s unique database. When all the data is compiled and the winners are announced, each entry will receive a confidential evaluation document, with invaluable insights on how the product has performed.

This in-depth research and feedback will provide participating products with vital statistics, such as how appealing their brand is perceived in the DF&TR channel and exactly how they performed in the sector.

Each evaluation document will reveal how the product scored versus a benchmark score for the category, as well as how certain consumer demographics perceive the brand, such as millennials versus older age groups.

NEW: BEST SUSTAINABLE SUPPLIER AWARD 

New this year among the product awards is the Best Sustainable Supplier Award. Submissions for this award should describe the sustainable values and attributes of the product, whether how the raw ingredients are sourced, how the product is manufactured or how it is packaged. These values may be either environmentally-friendly or socially responsible values, including women empowerment or child education programmes, charitable partnerships or gender/race/ability inclusivity initiatives,  linked to the production process.

In 2021, the awards ceremony will for the first time take place in Cannes, France, during the TFWA World Exhibition & Conference on Tuesday 26 October.