As I mentioned last week, last year I wrote a series of blog posts highlighting the individuals and companies who I thought made a difference online to travel consumers in 2008. This year I have decided to open up the voting to travel rants readers.
After many hours of deliberation here are my nominations for each category.
Best travel blog
• Europe a la Carte
• Travelling Mamas
• Soultravelers3
• Tripso
Best corporate travel blog
• Euro Cheapo
• Mr & Mrs Smith
• National Geographic
• Southwest Airlines
Best travel planning site
• Planet Eye
• Travellerspoint
• Trip Advisor
• Uptake
Best for travel content
• BootsnAll
• Lonely Planet
• Matador Network
• WikiTravel
Best designed travel website
• Antor
• Bales Worldwide
• Lonely Planet
• Mr & Mrs Smith
Best travel comparison site
• Travel Supermarket
• Kayak
• Cheap Flights
• Travel.co.uk
Best online travel tool
• Geobeats for it’s professional travel videos
• Hotels.com for hotel visualiser
• SeatGuru for comprehensive airline information
• Travellerspoint for wiki travel guide
Best travel forum
• Aardvark Travel
• Holiday Truths
• Thorntree
• TravelPod
Best site for holiday and hotel reviews
• Holidays Uncovered
• Holiday Watchdog
• Real Holiday Reports
• Trip Advisor
Best newspaper travel portal
• Guardian
• New York Times
• Travel Mail
• Times Online
Please feel free to spread the word around, and remember this is not the Oscar’s but a fun way to end off the year. Next week I will open up an online vote, and the winners of the travel rants consumer awards will be announced.
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pam | 26 November, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hello. Narrative, man, narrative! The storytellers! Where are they? And also, travel with kids. a big category and while I’m blissfully offspring free, there’s some good work going on in that sector.
MudslideMama | 27 November, 2008 at 1:28 am
Wow – this is so cool! Thank you. It’s exactly what I needed to help my mood improve after what I just did to that poor pumpkin bread we’re supposed to eat tomorrow. 
Happy Thanksgiving from the States!
Sam Daams | 27 November, 2008 at 7:06 am
Wow, listed not just once but twice. Thanks Darren! Some serious competition once again and some excellent sites listed in general! Congrats to all; well done.
Darren Cronian | 27 November, 2008 at 8:32 am
Please note: any companies offering themselves as nominee’s within the comments will be removed, it’s spam, plain and simple. These are the sites or blogs that I have enjoyed reading, or using within the last 12 months, and I am not going to list sites that I currently no nothing of.
@ Pam.
This isn’t a blog awards, it’s travel, I could have listed another thousand categories, so I stuck with the top level ones for the types of sites that have helped me as a consumer or keen traveller during the last 12 months.
Tamara | 27 November, 2008 at 10:04 am
Thank you so much for the nominations – much appreciated!
Kevin May | 27 November, 2008 at 10:24 am
surely there should be a category for best travel trade media website?
Shannon | 27 November, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Darren – I’m sitting here at work (the steady paycheck) on a US holiday and this was the best thing to find out this morning. Thank you! Thank you! This makes what we do so worth it. The Traveling Mamas are honored to be included among such a stellar list. Happy day, indeed.
Darren Cronian | 27 November, 2008 at 12:37 pm
@ Tamara and Shannon
No problems, you deserve to be on my list
@ Kevin
I thought the word ‘consumer’ would have given it away 
There’s only three travel trade media sites that come to mind in the UK anyway, so it wouldn’t be much competition!
Mark Evans | 27 November, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Darren Cronian | 27 November, 2008 at 4:12 pm
@ Mark
No problem, I’ve visited PE alot recently, it’s one of the few US trip planning sites that focuses a little more on Europe.
@ All
Online voting will open up on Monday morning, and will close 7 days later.
Beth Blair | 28 November, 2008 at 3:25 am
Yes! Thank you for nominating TravelingMamas!
Pete Meyers | 28 November, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Cherrye | 30 November, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Great list, Darren!
Andrew | 2 December, 2008 at 7:59 am
This is excellent! Wth so many self catering holiday rental websites out there, is it possible to include a category for these?
Dave | 8 December, 2008 at 9:04 am
Is voting now closed? Wish I’d heard about it earlier! Wanted to vote for Travelers Point!
Good to see such a solid list though!
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