Traveling for Happiness Awards 2022 gala held on June 9 at the Mandarin Oriental Ritz hotel in Madrid. In this second edition, the jury awarded companies and professionals in the tourism sector who, with their help, are getting involved in different initiatives, helping destinations and society. The gala featured a live performance by Ramón Mirabet.

Traveling for Happiness 2022 Awards

On June 9, 2022, the prestigious Mandarin Oriental Ritz Hotel in Madrid hosted the gala of the second edition of the Traveling for Happiness Awards, in which the jury highlighted important tourism companies and professionals committed to initiatives that benefit destinations and society. Find out what the event was like, which featured a live performance by Ramón Mirabet.

Categories

The purpose of these awards is to highlight the actions carried out by the tourism sector during the pandemic situation, to reward them and to make more visible all those companies that with their help are getting involved in different initiatives helping destinations and society.

  • Company or organization that has developed an initiative with social impact in Spain and whose main objective is to evaluate and study its result or consequence in a community.

  • Company or organization whose project or initiative has focused on the care of our environment, promoting the work of awareness, conservation, research or protection of the environment. This action must have been carried out in national territory.

  • Company or organization that has developed or is developing an innovative, economically viable and competitive business project with a recognized impact on environmental improvement that has led to a transformation in its way of working. This action must have been carried out in national territory.

  • Person, company or organization that has developed or is developing a project related to employee management, employee selection and training, taking into account demonstrable ethical actions that address the issues of parity, equality and transparency in all areas. This action must have been carried out on national territory.

  • A person, company or international organization whose social activity stands out in any of the above categories and through which it has managed to have a positive impact internationally.

  • All participating companies will have the opportunity to participate in the "Excellence Award", which will be awarded by public vote to the best-valued initiative or project.

    Participation in any of the other categories is a condition for participation.

Discover the winners of the Traveling For Happiness 2022 Awards

Jury

The members of the jury are the best ambassadors of the values of this project. Our jury is made up of world experts in different fields

  • It has made innovation and education a central part of UNWTO's work, while making the Organization more agile and better positioned to work closely with its Members and the private sector. This has been instrumental in the successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to joining UNWTO, he was Minister of Economic Development and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, and Ambassador to Spain. In the private sector, Mr. Pololikashvili's experience includes positions as vice president of TBC Group and general director of Georgia's leading soccer team, FC Dinamo Tbilisi. He holds a degree in banking and is fluent in English, Russian and Spanish, in addition to his native Georgian.

ZURAB POLOLIKASHVILI

  • With a degree in Optics, Optometry and Contactology, Bellido founded the Aragonese Academy of Gastronomy in 1995. Always linked to gastronomy, she has been director of Restauradores Magazine (1999-2003) and for her activity as a communicator in written and radio media she received in 2004 the National Award of the Spanish Academy of Gastronomy for the best work in gastronomic press.

LOURDES PLANA

  • In addition to being chosen as one of the TOP 100 most influential women in Spain and one of the 10 most influential managers in the last three years.

    For 15 years, she has held various positions in a corporation of the caliber of Coca-Cola, including president of the Coca-Cola Happiness Institute. In addition, she was Director of Marketing and Communications for the Adecco Group and Thought Leadership Director worldwide. She was also founder and CEO of the Observatory for Innovation in Employment (OIEE). In addition to her professional career, she is also the author of the book Deconstructing Happiness.

MARGARITA ÁLVAREZ

  • He is Professor Emeritus at Manchester Metropolitan University, CEO of the Responsible Tourism Association, an advisor to World Travel Market on its responsible tourism program, and chairs the judging panel for the World Responsible Tourism Awards. Harold drafted the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism in Destinations, agreed in 2002, and is a founding director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism, which promotes the principles of the Cape Town Declaration.

DR. HAROLD GOODWIN

  • He has led different multidisciplinary teams, in addition to helping the integration of numerous isolated hospitals into hospital groups while maintaining the distinctive and positive elements of each.

DR. MANUEL CONDE

  • For the past 22 years Andrea has assisted in the development of sustainability networks and certification programs in the UK, Europe, New Zealand, Sweden, Canada and Africa. Green Tourism started in 1997 and has expanded to cover all types of hospitality businesses in the UK and Ireland with over 2500 certified members. In the last two years, Andrea has driven the development of a digital platform for sustainable management, GreenCheck, which is being used for Green Tourism and has been adapted to other industry sectors.

ANDREA NICHOLAS

  • Highly recognized for scientific work in which he combines various imaging and brain stimulation techniques to examine causal relationships between patterns of activity in the brain, cognitive processes and behavior in health and disease.

    Director of the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and associate director of the General Clinical Research Center at Beth Israel Deaconessen Boston Medical Center, he is currently one of the most influential scientists in the world, according to Web of Science's Highly Cited 2019 list.

ÁLVARO PASCUAL- LEONE

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