INTERNATIONAL. Entries are now being invited for The Travel Retail Superstars Awards, the first edition of an annual awards for travel retail employees across airport, airline, downtown store and cruise sectors. The awards will shine the spotlight on the thousands of frontline and behind the scenes heroes and heroines who have helped keep the industry going throughout 2020 and into this year.
Hosted by The Moodie Davitt Report, with support from digital, design and communications agency FILTR.Qingwa, this free to enter event is run in collaboration with an advisory committee of human resource and training specialists to shape the awards.
Our advisory committee includes Marcus Griffin, Global Director of People & Culture at Flash Global Logistics in the US and from 2012 until 2020 SVP/Director – Human Resources, Americas & Caribbean at Dufry; and Heidi van Roon, President & Founder of the Spark Group of Companies, which provides a range of recruitment and staffing services for luxury & airport retailers and brands.
The Awards will be presented on Friday 15 October during the Virtual Travel Retail Expo 2021. Please click here for more information on the Expo event.
Please note: The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2021. Please click here to enter the awards.
The Travel Retail Superstars Awards Categories
Star Team – An award that celebrates those teams who have pulled together, working seamlessly, enthusiastically and effectively, whilst inspiring each other and those around them. It recognises teams who have gone beyond the call of duty, together, to make a difference and to get the job done to the highest standard.
Star Individual – This award recognises those people who everyone loves to work alongside and encounter in the workplace. For those individuals who always show up both for work and for others, who strive to walk the extra miles from a starting point of integrity and passion, and who communicate with sincerity, friendliness and conviction.
Star Story: Team or Individual – The last 18 months in travel retail have provided many challenges across all businesses in every sector. So this award is for those who have created and been an integral part of workplace stories that put a smile on the face, feed the soul and warm the heart.
Innovation: Team or Individual – Inspiration for new ideas and initiatives can strike anyone at any time, but particularly so in the face of challenges and change. This award is for those who have provided a difference to the business through offering innovative ideas that have been adopted, (especially company-wide), and have led to increased efficiency, improvements, profitability, enhanced customer service etc, at a time when businesses have needed such creativity more than ever.
Humanity, Leadership & Inspiration: Team or Individual – An award that celebrates those who have shown that leadership is an action, not just a position, and who encourage good citizenship through compassion and empathy and responsibility.
To reach as far and wide as possible, each of the five main award categories will be divided into four geographic and three department sub-categories in order to fully recognise and celebrate a diverse range of employees across the world for their passion, hard work and dedication. Each main category award will therefore recognise the following subcategories:
Regional
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- Middle East & Africa
- Americas
Departmental
- Shop Floor – Customer Facing
- Logistics/Warehouse
- Back Office – Marketing, HR, IT, Commercial, Procurement
Entry Submissions
Whilst it is an almost impossible task to ‘judge’ the good deeds and well-meaning actions of people in general, this is an opportunity for the Travel Retail industry to recognise and award such efforts and actions of employees during what has been a very challenging time. What is it that makes your employees and colleagues so priceless? How far have their actions reached? Please tell us in your own heartfelt words and share details that are soul inspiring and motivational.
The written summary component of entries should not exceed 1,000 words in total and should cover events that have taken place between January 2020 up to August 2021 (during the Covid pandemic).
Each written entry should include information under the following suggested headings:
- Overview
Please define and describe who, what, why, where and when as succinctly as possible in a brief synopsis / introduction.
- Scope & Reach
Questions to answer could be: Who was positively affected? How far reaching were their actions? What differences were made / felt? Was this external or internal within your business?
- Measured Success
This can cover events such as happy customer service outcomes and results, how a new way of doing business was actioned company-wide as a positive example or even by providing evidence of quantifiable improvements in business.
- The Exceptional
Please let us know why the nominee(s) deserves the award. What is it that makes them and their actions exceptional, outstanding and exemplary?
Award entries are being invited from today until the closing deadline of 31 August 2021.
All entries should also be validated by senior management – this can be done on the nomination portal here.
Giving back: Gavi vaccination charity to benefit
Additionally, in line with the celebration of people and the good that we can do, all profits from the Travel Retail Superstars Awards will go to charity, specifically Gavi – a global alliance that protects half the world’s children through vaccination. Since Gavi was established in 2000, its mission to save lives, reduce poverty and protect the world against the threat of epidemics has helped vaccinate more than 822 million children in 77 countries.
*The Moodie Davitt Report recently launched a column dedicated to recognising people in our industry – frontline, back office, logistics, management and more – for their commitment and achievements. We invite further nominees to be profiled in this regular column. Click here for the latest.
**For more details, contact Events & Marketing Manager Jess Howells at Jess@MoodieDavittReport.com