Mumbai: CNBC AWAAZ is back with ?Travel Awards 2012? ?one of India?s most accredited honors for travel & tourism industry. Slated to take place in the month of September, the award will honor and recognize the best in the travel and tourism industry.

The CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards predict the emerging trends of the industry and honor these trendsetters. In addition to rewarding the best in class travel destinations, it also recognizes ancillary services of the tourism industry like transport, hospitality, tour operators and travel portals among others. Recognizing the need for ecological tourism, CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards have a special category for sustainable tourism.

India, a land of cultural exuberance, diverse landscape and host of myriad travel possibilities, has been a preferred destination for local and foreign travelers. CNBC AWAAZ Travel Awards is an annual event hosted by the channel to identify and reward the ones who have met consumer expectations and industry standards. With accelerating competition between tourist destinations, tourism promotion boards, hundreds of allied services to entice consumers, it becomes imperative to institute benchmarks. In the era when there is no dearth of choices for travelers, this award is a way to ascertain the fundamentals, which can aid consumers and industry players in valuing and choosing from the best in the business.

Executed through a consumer survey, these awards identifies and felicitates the best in the travel industry, discovers India?s travel potential, unveils decision making criterion and understands the consumer mindset. For the very first time, the consumer survey will be entirely online, where people will be able to vote and nominate their preferences in several distinct categories. Consumers can nominate their favorites in the following categories:

? Destinations ? Accommodation ? Travel Companies ? Tourism Board ? Transport ? Lifestyle

People can vote by visiting the following till 31st August, 2012: Travel Awards Website: http://www.travelawards.moneycontrol.com/ Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/CNBCAwaazIndia