Carefully read the Rules for entry to ensure that you, and your organisation or product, meet all the criteria for entry.
CREATE AN eAWARDS ACCOUNT
Before nominating in the eAwards portal, you will need to create your own account. If you entered the Awards in 2011 or 2010, your account details will not work for 2012. You need to create a new account.
The nomination process alerts the Tourism Awards Coordinator to your intent to enter the Awards and ensures that you are entered in the correct category.
Nomination fees:
Nomination into the 2012 Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards attracts a non-refundable nomination fee according to the following:
Nomination fee A: $110* For categories 3–4, 10, 14–15, 28
You will be invoiced for the nomination fee once your nomination has been received. Note that withdrawals from the Awards process after COB Thursday 14 June 2012 will forfeit the nomination fee. Entrants who take part in the visitor experience survey are required to pay nomination fee B even if they are entering a nomination fee A category.
Please ensure the business/product/event name you enter when nominating is exactly how you wish to be listed on websites, certificates, at the gala dinner, etc. For example, nominate as Tourism Top End Visitor Information Centre, instead of Tourism Top End or Tourism Top End VIC.
Before logging back into the eAwards portal to submit your entry, you will need to ensure you have prepared the following:
Submission (PDF document of no more than 30 pages – refer to the Rules for entry for full details on formatting).
For assistance in converting your submission into a PDF document you can download the CutePDF maker for free or contact the Tourism Awards Coordinator for further options.
Ten promotional images – 300 to 600dpi files in a JPEG format (to be used in various media promoting the award winners – it is essential these images are of high quality, as they will be used in a variety of formats).
100 word promotional description (to be used in various media promoting the award winners).
Submissions are due on Thursday 27 September 2012.
All submissions must be lodged electronically to the eAwards portal by 5pm Thursday 27 September.
Late entries will not be accepted. Plan to get your submission in early.
All withdrawals and entries not submitted by the deadline still require the payment of the nomination fee as per the terms and conditions accepted in the nomination process.
THE SITE VISIT
The purpose of the site visit is to assess the business being nominated and for verification of claims made within the submission. Operations are under no obligation to offer a free experience of their product. The site visit will be prearranged at a mutually convenient time and the judges have a proforma from which they work.
Scores from the site visit will not apply at the Australian Tourism Awards.
KEEPING IT FAIR
To ensure consistency and fairness in judging, the Rules for Entry must be strictly adhered to. Failure to follow the Rules for Entry may result in disqualification at the discretion of the Chair of judges.
OUR ASSURANCE
All information submitted is strictly confidential. All persons, for example the Tourism Awards Coordinator and judges, who may come into contact with your submission, are required to sign a confidentiality agreement.
DISCLAIMER
By entering the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards, you authorise the use and/or reproduction of images and the 100 word description provided in relation to any editorial/advertising purposes initiated in conjunction with the awards and the Australian Tourism Awards.
Your contact details may also be supplied to agencies engaged on behalf of award organisers/committees for promotional purposes.
Under no circumstances will judges be held responsible for any comment, viewpoint or expression, whether expressed or implied, concerning the standard or quality of an entrant’s submission. By ticking the terms and conditions box, you agree not to bring a claim against any judge, or the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards committee, in relation to feedback on your submission.
JUDGES’ DECISION
The decision of the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards judging panel, and the Australian Tourism Awards judging panel, is final.
Any grievance, in the first instance, should be forwarded to the attention of:
Angela Ellerman
Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards Coordinator
Locked Bag 2001
Civic Square ACT 2608
Entrants
Download the 2012 Tourism Award entry information
SELECT YOUR CATEGORY
View all entry categories and questions.
If you require assistance in determining the right category for your business to enter, contact the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards Coordinator.
REVIEW THE RULES FOR ENTRY
2012 Rules for entry
Carefully read the Rules for entry to ensure that you, and your organisation or product, meet all the criteria for entry.
CREATE AN eAWARDS ACCOUNT
Before nominating in the eAwards portal, you will need to create your own account. If you entered the Awards in 2011 or 2010, your account details will not work for 2012. You need to create a new account.
Click here for further details on the eAwards.
NOMINATE YOUR BUSINESS
You must nominate online by 5pm Thursday 14 June.
The nomination process alerts the Tourism Awards Coordinator to your intent to enter the Awards and ensures that you are entered in the correct category.
Nomination fees:
Nomination into the 2012 Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards attracts a non-refundable nomination fee according to the following:
Nomination fee A: $110*
For categories 3–4, 10, 14–15, 28
Nomination fee B: $396*
For categories 1–2, 5–9, 11–13, 16–27, 31
No nomination fee
For categories 29, 30
*This fee includes GST.
You will be invoiced for the nomination fee once your nomination has been received. Note that withdrawals from the Awards process after COB Thursday 14 June 2012 will forfeit the nomination fee. Entrants who take part in the visitor experience survey are required to pay nomination fee B even if they are entering a nomination fee A category.
Please ensure the business/product/event name you enter when nominating is exactly how you wish to be listed on websites, certificates, at the gala dinner, etc. For example, nominate as Tourism Top End Visitor Information Centre, instead of Tourism Top End or Tourism Top End VIC.
Click here to log into your eAwards account
ENTERING YOUR SUBMISSION
Before logging back into the eAwards portal to submit your entry, you will need to ensure you have prepared the following:
For assistance in converting your submission into a PDF document you can download the CutePDF maker for free or contact the Tourism Awards Coordinator for further options.
Submissions are due on Thursday 27 September 2012.
Late entries will not be accepted.
Complete the Tourism Awards submission checklist to confirm you have completed everything required.
Click here to log into your eAwards account.
Delivery
All submissions must be lodged electronically to the eAwards portal by 5pm Thursday 27 September.
Late entries will not be accepted. Plan to get your submission in early.
All withdrawals and entries not submitted by the deadline still require the payment of the nomination fee as per the terms and conditions accepted in the nomination process.
THE SITE VISIT
The purpose of the site visit is to assess the business being nominated and for verification of claims made within the submission. Operations are under no obligation to offer a free experience of their product. The site visit will be prearranged at a mutually convenient time and the judges have a proforma from which they work.
Scores from the site visit will not apply at the Australian Tourism Awards.
KEEPING IT FAIR
To ensure consistency and fairness in judging, the Rules for Entry must be strictly adhered to. Failure to follow the Rules for Entry may result in disqualification at the discretion of the Chair of judges.
OUR ASSURANCE
All information submitted is strictly confidential. All persons, for example the Tourism Awards Coordinator and judges, who may come into contact with your submission, are required to sign a confidentiality agreement.
DISCLAIMER
By entering the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards, you authorise the use and/or reproduction of images and the 100 word description provided in relation to any editorial/advertising purposes initiated in conjunction with the awards and the Australian Tourism Awards.
Your contact details may also be supplied to agencies engaged on behalf of award organisers/committees for promotional purposes.
Under no circumstances will judges be held responsible for any comment, viewpoint or expression, whether expressed or implied, concerning the standard or quality of an entrant’s submission. By ticking the terms and conditions box, you agree not to bring a claim against any judge, or the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards committee, in relation to feedback on your submission.
JUDGES’ DECISION
The decision of the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards judging panel, and the Australian Tourism Awards judging panel, is final.
Any grievance, in the first instance, should be forwarded to the attention of:
Angela Ellerman
Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards Coordinator
Locked Bag 2001
Civic Square ACT 2608