Open to an agency who is either a dedicated concierge specialist or has a full concierge operation within their business. You must be able to fully explain the level of concierge service offered by your business, whether this extends past travel, and how you cater to your clients post-booking.

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Open to an agent who either works for a concierge dedicated agency or runs a solo operation dedicated to giving clients full service concierge. The agent can nominate themselves or be nominated by a manager/agency owner. You must be able to fully explain the level of concierge service you offer personally, whether this extends past travel, and how you cater to your clients post-booking. You should be able to demonstrate your exceptional concierge offering with examples and case studies.

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Open to an agency that operates a homeworking business with 50 or more homeworkers actively selling to clients. Agencies entering this award should be able to clearly show their luxury travel sales, how much of their business is focused on luxury and their intentions to grow this. They should highlight future growth plans, details of their client base and their route to new clientele. This category is not suitable for individual homeworking agents to enter, but for their parent company. There is now a separate category for individual homeworkers.

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Open to an agency that operates a homeworking business with fewer than 50 homeworkers but more than 15 actively selling to clients. Agencies entering this award should be able to clearly show their luxury travel sales, how much of their business is focused on luxury and their intentions to grow this. They should highlight future growth plans, details of their client base and their route to new clientele. This category is not suitable for individual homeworking agents to enter, but for their parent company. There is now a separate category for individual homeworkers.

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Open to an agency that operates a homeworking business with fewer than 15 homeworkers actively selling to clients. Agencies entering this award should be able to clearly show their luxury travel sales, how much of their business is focused on luxury and their intentions to grow this. They should highlight future growth plans, details of their client base and their route to new clientele. This category is not suitable for individual homeworking agents to enter, but for their parent company. There is now a separate category for individual homeworkers.

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Open to any homeworking agent who excels at selling luxury holidays within a retail setting. You can nominate yourself or be nominated by headquarters. You must be able to demonstrate strong luxury knowledge and sales. You must be able to highlight the strength of your luxury business, how you've achieved success and how you cater to and market to high-end clients.

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Open to an agency that has a presence on the high street or a retail unit where clients can come in and make a booking in person. Agencies entering this award should be able to clearly show their luxury travel sales, how much of their business is focused on luxury and their intentions to grow this. They should highlight future growth plans, details of their client base and their route to new clientele.

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Open to an individual agent who excels at selling luxury holidays within a retail setting. You can nominate yourself or be nominated be your manager/shop owner. You must be able to demonstrate strong luxury knowledge and sales. You must be able to highlight the strength of your luxury business, how you've achieved success and how you cater to and market to high-end clients.

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Open to an individual agent - this could be a member of staff at a high street shop, concierge agency or a homeworking agency. This category is open to both bonded and non bonded agents. Agents entering this award should be able to clearly show their luxury travel sales, how much of their business is focused on luxury and their intentions to grow this. They should highlight future growth plans, details of their client base and their route to new clientele.

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Open to a completely new agency that has been set up within the 24 months prior to the closing date of July 15, 2026. Entries could come from new homeworking businesses, new retail shops or new call centre-based businesses. Entries should highlight your route to launching the business, your initial plans, the current state of the business and your growth strategy.

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Open to an individual agent who has worked as a travel agent for less than 24 months prior to the closing date of July 15, 2026. Entries could come from new homeworkers or new members of staff at an existing agency. Entries should highlight your route to launching the business, your initial plans, the current state of the business and your growth strategy.

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Open to an individual or agency who prides themselves on putting sustainable practices at the forefront of their jobs. Entries should highlight a clear passion for sustainability and examples of how the agent puts issues around responsible travel front and centre to ensure clients are having as little impact as possible when travelling.

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Open to an individual or agency who prides themselves on putting inclusivity at the forefront of their jobs. Agents must be able to demonstrate a clear passion for DEAI (diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion). Entries should highlight a clear passion for supporting diversity in the travel sector and should provide examples of how you cater to a specific diversity dimension, such as accessibility, LGBTQIA+ or Indigenous tourism. Submissions should showcase how you work to improve the travel experience for all.

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Open to an agency who is either entirely dedicated to cruise sales or has a strong cruise business which makes up the lion's share of their business. You must be able to highlight the strength of your cruise business, how you've achieved success with the cruise sector and how you cater to and market to high-end cruise clients.

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Open to an individual agent who excels at selling luxury cruise holidays. You could work at a cruise specialist agency, a retail agency or you could be a homeworker. The important thing is that you should be able to prove strong cruise business that makes up the lion's share of your business. You must be able to highlight the strength of your cruise business, how you've achieved success with the cruise sector and how you cater to and market to high-end cruise clients.

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This category is not open to submissions. Instead the winner will be selected by the Aspire team.

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