Best Hostel? Best Tour Operator? Best Activity? Have your say with TNT‘s Golden Backpack Awards 2010!
It’s that time of year again when the travel and tourism industry of Australia awaits to find out what their guests really think. TNT‘s Golden Backpack Awards are the only awards within the industry that are voted for by the backpackers themselves.
This is the fourth year that TNT‘s Golden Backpack Awards have been held & Travellers Auto barn has won the award in 2007 & 2008 and we were runners up in 2009.
Vote for Travellers Auto Barn as BEST CAR/CAMPER RENTAL COMPANY (OZ) & and you’ll automatically be entered into our prize draw to win two return flights with Virgin Blue Airlines.
If sore heads around the office are anything to go by last nights Golden Backpacks awards dinner was a night to remember, or not as the case may be. Honestly, I’ve seen more productive dole queues at 9am than this office this morning.
Going into last nights award having won the previous two years was an exciting albeit daunting prospect. We’d been nominated among some massive players in Oz/NZ travel – Virgin Blue, Tiger Airways, Greyhound – These are some seriously heavy hitters in travel circles. It’s an achievement to even be nominated next to names like that.
Big Sam Kekovich was on had to add a bit of true Aussie flavour to proceedings and did a stand up job. These things can turn into a bit of a “Logies” nightmare if you’ve got a dud presenter but Sam pulled out all the stops to get the 450 strong crowd going.
Unfortunately at the end of the day we didn’t get enough votes to make it three in a row but still a second place in a field like that is nothing to be sniffed at. Congratulation go to Greyhound who took home the silverware on the night. Enjoy your win but just wait till next year!!!
Check out our Sydney staff living it up at the Golden Backpacks and trying their hardest to tarnish our good reputation!!
Already having won in 2007 and 2008 Travellers Auto Barn have this year been pipped at the post for the award of “Best National Transport Company” and been narrowly denied the award for the third consecutive year. The prestigious awards held in Sydney every year are to recognise excellence in Australia and New Zealand’s backpacker and independent traveller market and are voted on by the travellers themselves.
