Awards & competitions News
Pleased to achieve the AITO Project Protect Award
By Mountain Kingdoms on 18 Mar 2020
Categories: Awards & competitions, Responsible Tourism
At the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) AGM this month, Mountain Kingdoms' Responsible Tourism Officer, Julia Sharpe, was proud to be awarded Mountain Kingdoms certificate for completing the AITO Project Protect programme.
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2017 Photo of the Year winner announced
By Mountain Kingdoms on 21 May 2018
Categories: Awards & competitions
Our 2017 Photo of the Year competition received a fantastic selection of photo entries, but there could only be five finalists and one winner.
After collecting hundreds of votes between the five photos, which you can see here, we are thrilled announce our winner.
And the winner is...
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AITO nominated in the British Travel Awards
By Mountain Kingdoms on 28 Jul 2017
Categories: Awards & competitions
As proud members of the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) we were delighted to hear that they have been nominated in the British Travel Awards for 'Best review/ratings website'; an award they won in 2015.
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2016 Photo of the Year winner announced
By Mountain Kingdoms on 03 May 2017
Categories: Awards & competitions
Our 2016 Photo of the Year competition received hundreds of photo entries taken all over the world, but there could only be five finalists and one winner.
After receiving hundreds of votes between the five photos, which you can see here, we are excited to have a winner.
And the prize goes to...
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2015 Photo of the Year winner is announced
By Mountain Kingdoms on 03 May 2016
Categories: Awards & competitions
Our 2015 Photo of the Year competition saw many hundreds of photo entries taken all over the world, but there could only be five finalists and one winner.
After hundreds of votes between the five photos, which you can see here, we are excited to have a winner.
And the prize goes to...
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Photo of the Year - the winner’s story
By Mountain Kingdoms on 20 May 2015
Categories: Nepal, Awards & competitions
We asked Mr Green, the winner of our 2014 Photo of the Year competition, to share with us the story of how he captured the prize winning photo on our Everest Base Camp & Gokyo Lakes trek.
Mr Green's story and his winning photo can be seen our Travellers' Tales blog.
2014 Photo of the Year winner is announced
By Mountain Kingdoms on 09 Apr 2015
Categories: Awards & competitions
Many thanks to those who voted for their favourite photo in our 2014 Client Photo of the Year Competition. We received hundreds of photos throughout 2014, all of which were a delight to see. After some tough decisions we picked five finalists to be featured in our annual photo competition, their images can be viewed here.
We are pleased to announce that the 2014 winner is...
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2014 Wanderlust Guide of the Year Awards
By Mountain Kingdoms on 15 May 2014
Categories: Peru, Awards & competitions
We were delighted to hear that Efrain Valles has made the shortlist for the 2014 Wanderlust Guide of the Year Awards. Efrain works for our partners in Peru - and so if you have travelled with us in Peru, then you may have met him. If you had Efrain as your leader then Wanderlust would like to hear from you! Send your lovely comments to topguide@wanderlust.co.uk. The deadline is the 23rd May.
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Competition winners announced
By Mountain Kingdoms on 30 Mar 2014
Categories: Awards & competitions, Office news
During January and February we ran two competitions, each with a prize of a £100 Cotswold Outdoor voucher. Congratulations to the two winners!
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Photo of the Year - Mark’s story
By Mountain Kingdoms on 12 Dec 2013
Categories: Venezuela, Awards & competitions, Your adventures
We asked Mark Green, the winner of the Photo of the Year competition, to share with us the story of how he captured the prize-winning shot of the Angel Falls in Venezuela.
"As far as I remember this is how the story unfolded: Our group had made a very early pre-dawn start for the 3-4 hour motorised canoe journey up the Carao river from Canaima. The river forked after we had been going for a few hours and we continued up the narrower and faster Churun river until navigating a series of rapids and tight bends and suddenly catching our first partially obscured view over the lush forest of the magnificent Angel Falls towering above us and in full thundering flow....
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