{"id":7153,"date":"2020-08-26T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2021-07-16T22:53:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T22:53:22","slug":"ecuador-at-the-world-travel-awards-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/ecuador-at-the-world-travel-awards-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador at World Travel Awards 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; disabled_on=&#8221;on|off|off&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_fullwidth_post_title _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; alt=&#8221;Quito city Ecuador&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Ecuador-world-travel awards-2020-header&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ecuador-world-travel-awards-2020-header.jpg&#8221; text_color=&#8221;light&#8221; text_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; text_shadow_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; title_font=&#8221;|700||on|||||&#8221; title_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; title_text_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; title_text_shadow_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;400px|||||&#8221;][\/et_pb_fullwidth_post_title][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; disabled_on=&#8221;off|on|on&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_fullwidth_post_title _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; alt=&#8221;Quito city Ecuador&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Ecuador-world-travel awards-2020-header&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ecuador-world-travel-awards-2020-header.jpg&#8221; text_color=&#8221;light&#8221; text_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; text_shadow_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; title_font=&#8221;|700||on|||||&#8221; title_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; title_text_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; title_text_shadow_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;200px|||||&#8221;][\/et_pb_fullwidth_post_title][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;5px||3px|||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243; width=&#8221;90%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.7&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.9&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;0.5em&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|||on|||||&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;|700||on|||||&#8221; header_2_text_color=&#8221;#c29321&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;||10px|||&#8221;]<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Stay up to date with our most recent news and updates<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_search show_button=&#8221;off&#8221; placeholder=&#8221;Search our blog&#8230;&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.9&#8243; max_width=&#8221;400px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|50px|50px|50px|50px&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;#c29321&#8243;][\/et_pb_search][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; specialty=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;5px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243; specialty_columns=&#8221;3&#8243;][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;5px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;3_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;justified&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; header_2_font=&#8221;|700||on|||||&#8221; header_2_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_2_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; header_2_font_size=&#8221;21px&#8221; header_2_letter_spacing=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.1em&#8221;]<p>In the 2020 edition of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtravelawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Travel Awards<\/a><\/strong>, Ecuador plays an important role after being nominated in 42 categories. <strong>In 2019, Ecuador won 19 awards<\/strong>. Several tourist company hotels in <strong>Quito, Guayaquil, Galapagos, Cuenca<\/strong>, achieved the awards of the contest, thanks to <strong>their excellence in tourist service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ecuador<\/strong> as a country obtained the award as <strong>&#8220;South America&#8217;s leading river cruise destination&#8221;<\/strong> and the Cruise Train Route was also recognized as the <strong>&#8220;South America&#8217;s leading luxury train.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quito<\/strong> also won the award as<strong> &#8220;South America&#8217;s Leading Destination&#8221;<\/strong> for the seventh successive time. Above other nominated cities such as Bogot\u00e1, Buenos Aires, Guayaquil, La Paz, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago de Chile.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/San-francisco-church-Quito.jpg&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; alt=&#8221;San-Francisco-church-Quito&#8221; title_text=&#8221;San-francisco-church-Quito&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.0&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;justified&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; header_2_font=&#8221;|700||on|||||&#8221; header_2_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_2_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; header_2_font_size=&#8221;21px&#8221; header_2_letter_spacing=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.1em&#8221;]<p><strong>Quito&#8217;s Mariscal Sucre Airport<\/strong> was awarded the <strong>&#8220;Best Airport in South America&#8221;<\/strong> \u200b\u200baward, this year it was also nominated.<\/p>\n<p>The indispensable city of <strong>Guayaquil<\/strong> also obtained three awards: <strong>&#8220;Leading Destination in Festivals and Events&#8221;<\/strong>, <strong>&#8220;Leading Destination for Business Travel in South America&#8221;<\/strong>, in addition to the award in the category <strong>&#8220;Tourism Council of the Leading City of South America &#8220;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/what-is-galapagos-island-famous-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The most famous archipelago in the world<\/strong><\/a>, the <strong>Galapagos Islands<\/strong> were crowned as the <strong>&#8220;Leading Beach Destination in South America&#8221;<\/strong> \u200b\u200band the beautiful city of <strong>Cuenca<\/strong> was awarded as the <strong>&#8220;Leading City Vacation Destination in South America&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Ecuador 2020 nominations<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/10-things-you-should-know-before-traveling-to-South-America-featured-image.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"542\" alt=\"mountain-volcano-horse-landscape\" class=\"wp-image-10808 aligncenter size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/10-things-you-should-know-before-traveling-to-South-America-featured-image.jpg 900w, https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/10-things-you-should-know-before-traveling-to-South-America-featured-image-480x289.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 900px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year Ecuador <strong>is nominated in 42 categories<\/strong>, between cities, places, attractions, and private companies. Some of the categories for which Ecuador competes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South America&#8217;s Leading Adventure Tourism Destination<\/li>\n<li>South America&#8217;s Leading Natural Destination<\/li>\n<li>South America&#8217;s Leading Cruise Destination<\/li>\n<li>South America&#8217;s Leading Culinary Destination<\/li>\n<li>South America&#8217;s Leading Cultural Destination<\/li>\n<li>South America&#8217;s Leading Green Destination<\/li>\n<li>South America&#8217;s Leading LGBTI Destination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Galapagos Islands 2020 nominations<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blue-footed-boobies.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" alt=\"blue footed boobies galapagos islands\" class=\"wp-image-9585 aligncenter size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blue-footed-boobies.jpg 900w, https:\/\/cruisetogalapagos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blue-footed-boobies-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 900px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Galapagos Islands are also nominated this year, <strong>competing in 3 categories<\/strong>. The Galapagos Islands are a group of islands located in the southern Pacific. These islands have several species that cannot be seen elsewhere in the world. The Galapagos is an important nature reserve and a National Park. In fact, the Galapagos Islands <strong>are the winners for 3 consecutive years as the Leading Beach Destination in South America<\/strong>. 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Know more about it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this year edition of the World Travel Awards, Ecuador plays a significant role with participation in over 40 categories. Most of these nominations are public and almost 20 are private. Actually, Ecuador is a winner for 6 consecutive years as the \"Leading Green Destination of the World\" from 2013 to 2018. As a result of this, Ecuador obtained 25 awards from the 38 categories to which it was nominated on the last edition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/about-galapagos-islands\/\">Galapagos Islands<\/a> won South America's Leading Beach Destination in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Travel Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-8339 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/world-travel-awards-nominee-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Travel Awards were established in 1993 to reward the tourism industry. The certain annually award many sectors of the tourism industry such as cruises, hotels, leading places, airlines and more. Actually, the World Travel Awards are recognized as one of the most important events of tourism around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event is divided by 10 regions that leads to a big final event. The regions are Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Indian Ocean, Middle East, North America, Oceania, and South America. At the end of the year, winners of the different regions compete. The Latin America ceremony will be held on La Paz, Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year is the 26<sup>th<\/sup> edition of this event and the Grand Final will be in Muscat, Oman in November 2019.<\/p>\n\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ecuador Nominations<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year Ecuador is nominated for more than 40 categories, including cities, places, attractions, and private companies. The categories where Ecuador are competing for are:<\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n \t<li>Adventure Tourism Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>Cruise Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>Culinary Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>Cultural Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>Leading Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>Nature Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>River Cruise Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>Whale Watching Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>Youth Travel Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>Green Destination<\/li>\n \t<li>LGBT Destination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Galapagos islands are also nominated on this year, competing on 3 categories. The Galapagos Islands are a group of islands located at the South of the Pacific. These islands have several <strong>species<\/strong> that can not be seen in another place in the world. The Galapagos are an important reserve of nature and a National Park. Actually, the Galapagos Islands are the winners by 2 consecutive years as South America's Leading Beach Destination. The Galapagos Islands are competing for:<\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n \t<li>Most Romantic Destination 2019<\/li>\n \t<li>Honeymoon Destination 2019<\/li>\n \t<li>Leading Beach Destination 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alya Luxury Catamaran has been nominated for the <strong>World Travel Awards<\/strong> (WTA) in the category of <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AlyaWTA2019voteforus\">South America\u2019s Leading Boutique Cruise 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-8338 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alya-luxury-catamaran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Support our responsible tourism click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AlyaWTA2019voteforus\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AlyaWTA2019voteforus<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you want to know more about Alya and GALAGENTS\u2019 Cruises, click below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/cruises\/\">https:\/\/www.galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/cruises\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/promotions\/\">https:\/\/www.galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/promotions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/cruises\/alya-luxury-catamaran\/\">https:\/\/www.galapagosgalaxycruises.com\/cruises\/alya-luxury-catamaran\/<\/a><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"2880","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,104],"tags":[180,183,90,24,189,940],"class_list":["post-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-ecuador","tag-awards","tag-cruises","tag-ecuador-news","tag-galapagos","tag-world","tag-world-travel-awards"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.1 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ecuador at World Travel Awards 2020 | Ecuador News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ecuador was nominated for 42 categories in World Travel Awards this year, including the Galapagos Islands. 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