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News Release from: Fortune Cookie
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 03 April 2008
Fortune Cookie packs case of award
nominations
Digital design agency Fortune Cookie has received an unprecedented 10 nominations at the 2008 Travolution Awards, which recognise excellent web design for the UK travel sector.
The 10 nominations are as follows Best Hotel Website: Small Luxury Hotels of the World www.slh.com
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 10 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Best Hotel Website: The Atlantic Hotel www.theatlantichotel.com.
Best Tour Operator Website: Kuoni World Class www.kuoniworldclass.co.uk.
Best Tour Operator Website: Voyages Jules Verne (Kuoni) www.vjv.co.uk.
Best Tour Operator Website: FlexiSki (First Choice) www.flexiski.com.
Best Tour Operator Website: Exodus (First Choice) www.exodus.co.uk.
Best Use of Technology: National Rail Enquiries 'Lisa' Virtual Agent www.nationalrail.co.uk/site_help/.
Best Use of Technology: Voyages Jules Verne (Kuoni) www.vjv.co.uk.
Best Use of Social Media: Flexiski (First Choice) www.flexiski.com.
Best Agency for Website Design: Fortune Cookie.
Commenting on the agency's fleet of nominations, Fortune Cookie Managing Director Justin Cooke said: "I'm fiercely proud of the work of the Fortune Cookie team.
"These ten nominations confirm Fortune Cookie's dominant position as a premier provider of first-class web design for the travel sector.
"Our design ethos is all about building beautiful, findable, accessible, usable websites on time and on budget that deliver fantastic business returns.
"Our raft of nominations demonstrates that we are exceeding expectations time and time and time again".
Cooke attributed Fortune Cookie's success at the Travolution Awards to the consistently impressive business returns that the shortlisted sites are delivering, including: online reservations revenue up 70 per cent; site visits up 58 per cent; visits to the site by people using search engines up 58 per cent.
Matt Illston is Head of E-Commerce at Flexski (First Choice Holidays), whose website has been shortlisted for two Travolution Awards (Best Tour Operator Website and Best Use of Social Media).
He commented: "As a niche tour operator, our website is vital to the future of our business.
"We constantly strive to improve the service we give to our customers online.
"We are delighted that the Flexiski website has been shortlisted for two Travolution Awards".
The 2008 Travolution Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on Thursday 24 April 2008.
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