This year, 19 nominations were received which have been whittled down by a panel of well-respected business travel journalists and experts to a shortlist of five.
*Advantage Business Travel Management for its GDS CAT 35 initiative
*EOS for its all-business class long haul service
*ITM for Project Icarus
*Portman Travel for the Portman Forest programme
*Virgin Atlantic for its new Premium Economy product
The Business Travel Show Innovation Award was founded in 2005 torecognise innovation, ingenuity and true leadership in the businesstravel industry. British Airways won the very first award for itsManage My Booking self-service strategy. In 2006, Harry Weeks Travel &Leisure Group was deemed the worthy winner for its online rail-booking tool Evolvi.