Why you should enter the Travel Pride Champion awards

Meanwhile LGBTQ+ ambassador Lindsay Garvey-Jones was able to use her Travel Pride Champion status to continue pushing an inclusive agenda at Holiday Extras. 

Speaking in 2020 Garvey-Jones said: “The win gives us a platform to be able to offer help and support, create frameworks and have forums with our peers and associates.” She added that the company had also since “taken more responsibility” to change internal policies and marketing to reflect a more diverse, inclusive audience and message. 

Elsewhere, for Richard Tolley, Centurion team leader at American Express Centurion, being named a Travel Pride Champion brought better visibility for Tolley and Amex’s role in championing diversity and inclusion, he said.

“It allowed us to shine externally, not just internally, and was a great opportunity to meet other businesses, to network, share ideas, make connections and learn from each other,” Tolley said following his win in 2019.

The Travel Pride Champion awards are aimed at those working from a junior level to middle management, and the changes they have driven don’t have to be large. For example even starting a conversation about D&I or championing the establishment of a clear CSR policy within your business can be a significant step.

You can enter yourself or a colleague – just state in no more than 350 words why you think you/this person deserves to be a Travel Pride Champion here.

Entries close on 10 June.

Travel Pride will take place on 5 July from 6.30 at The Deck, 20 St Dunstan’s Hill, London EC3R 8HL

Enter to become a Travel Pride champion here