The AstraZeneca Travel Service – a global team with expertise from both American Express Global Business Travel and AstraZeneca – has been recognised for its exemplary teamwork by winning the Best Travel Team category in the 2013 Business Travel Awards.

The Australian International Design Awards, Australia's longest standing and most prestigious awards for design and innovation, is now aligned to Vivid Sydney, the annual festival of light, music and ideas, to create the inaugural Australian International Design Festival.

TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site, has acclaimed Emirates Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa as the Top Hotel and Top Luxury Hotel in Australia in the 2013 Traveler’s Choice Awards.

Three restaurants within the Spicers Retreats Hotels & Lodges group have been recognised nationally for culinary excellence in the Australian Good Food Guide’s (AGFG) Chef Hat Awards 2013.

World Travel Awards (WTA), ‘the Oscars of the travel industry’, is issuing a call to those organisations that aspire to be recognised as the best in their field, as voted by their fellow professionals, to participate in its 20th anniversary, 2013 programme.

Worldhotels affiliate, One World Hotel Petaling Jaya, Malaysia has been voted the world’s Best International Convention Hotel.

Business Traveller, the prestigious international business magazine, has recognised LAN Airlines in the "Best Business Class of Latin America" category.