About the awards

CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards 2011 presented by Chattisgarh Tourism.

"Where culture echoes, traditions speak, beauty enthralls and diversity delights."

India is a land where tourists come for its wealth of sights, cultural exuberance, and diversity of terrain and in search of that special something that only India promises and delivers.

The CNBC AWAAZ Travel Awards is an annual event hosted by CNBC AWAAZ to honor the best in class travel destinations and other ancillary services of the tourism industry. With increasing competition and proliferation of tourist destinations, tourism promotion boards, hundreds of allied services chasing the consumer, it becomes important to establish benchmarks that can help consumers and the industry. These Awards recognize and honor best in class, destinations, organizations and service providers based on an objective study conducted by India’s leading research firm, Nielsen

The CNBC AWAAZ Travel Awards are based on an exhaustive consumer response study, conducted across 11 cities with over 1918 respondents across all the segment (segments include Adventure, General public, Corporate)

The objectives of CNBC AWAAZ Travel Awards 2011 are:

• Felicitating the best in the industry
• Identifying India’s travel potential
• Unveiling decisions making criteria’s
• Understanding Consumer mindset.