Housetrip finalist of the Travolution Awards

Each year the Travolution Awards seek to honour the very best in the UK online travel industry with categories for marketing, travel agents and tour operator, and technology providers and applications. A panel of industry judges has collated a shortlist for each award and a winner will be chosen in each category. The winners will be announced not until October but the shortlists have been published today. Housetrip is finalist in the two categories “Best Accommodation Website” and “Best Use of Search Engine Marketing”.

The award for the best accommodation website will be given to a website that has achieved the greatest impact in its market during the entry period. This can be based on improved design features, an increase in traffic, new channels or partnerships, or the introduction of innovative tools and functionality. The award for the best use of search engine marketing will be given to a digital marketing agency and/or travel organisation which has excelled with SEM techniques.

The winners of the Travolution Awards will be announced at the award ceremony on 23 October 2012 at Troxy, London.

HouseTrip is one of Europe’s largest holiday rental booking websites. In May 2012 the start-up celebrated the listing of its 100.000^th property. The company was founded in 2009 by Arnaud Bertrand and Junjun Chen. Arnaud and Junjun met whilst studying hospitality management at the acclaimed Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland. HouseTrip was founded in Lausanne and has today also offices in London and Lisbon. The company was awarded with the CTI Start-up-Label in 2010.