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Entrepreneurs Offered GBP100,000 Investment for Travel Industry's Next Big Idea
LONDON, June 24 /PRNewswire/ --
- Nationwide Search Launched for a New Travel Business
The leading trade newspaper for the travel industry is offering a
GBP100,000 prize to the individual or group with the most innovative idea for
a new travel business.
Travel Trade Gazette (TTG) is offering the incredible recession-busting
prize in a Dragon's Den-style competition called The Big Idea, sponsored by
Dubai Tourism.
It is open to budding travel entrepreneurs from across the UK and
Ireland, with the winner announced at the glittering TTG Travel Awards at
London's Grosvenor House Hotel in September.
Competition hopefuls will have to impress a panel of four travel industry
investors, who have each put up GBP25,000 of their own money and will take a
stake in the winning start-up business.
The investors are:
- Paul Stanyer, founder of holiday transfer company Holiday Taxis.
- Christopher Photi, senior partner at accountancy and auditing firm
White Hart Associates.
- Jane Dyson, founder of marketing agency The Network.
- Oliver Brendon, founder of ticket specialist Attraction Tickets Direct.
This is the first time the competition has been opened up to entries from
outside the travel industry. Last year's GBP100,000 investment was won by
Helen Doyle and Danny Waine of wedding and honeymoon specialist Perfect
Weddings Abroad.
TTG editor Lucy Huxley said: "Although the majority of banks and
investors' purse strings are tighter than ever, four new investors are
demonstrating astonishing faith in the talent and ideas of the travel
industry.
"Whether it's an idea for a new online travel business, a new style of
travel agency or a specialist holiday company, this is an opportunity to turn
a dream into reality."
Investor Jane Dyson, who started her career on the shop floor of a
holiday company before founding The Network at a dining room table with just
GBP1,000, said: "This will be a life-changing opportunity for a budding
entrepreneur to leap up a few rungs of the ladder. I would have loved that
opportunity."
For rules and an entry form, go to http://www.ttgbigidea.com. The
deadline for entries is August 3.
Note to Editors:
TTG is the leading publication for the UK travel industry, with news and
features read by frontline high street travel agents through to chief
executives of FTSE-100 travel companies.
http://www.ttglive.com
