www.colombia.travel among the ten finalists for the Spain Internet Awards

Saturday, 09 May 2009 00:00

A total of 562 candidates were nominated for this year’s contest, 401 of them in the Best Website category.

Colombia’s Official Tourism Portal was nominated to one of the world’s most important digital awards, Premios de Internet de España 2009. These widely-acknowledged awards provide an excellent opportunity to show that Colombia is standing out in Latin America in the use of the Internet to promote tourism.

Contest categories

• Best Website (401 nominees)
• Best Company (57 nominees)
• Best Communicator (33 nominees)
• Best Initiative (60 nominees)
• Solidarity Fund (10 nominees)

Best website

This year, the Colombian portal competes in its category with nine Spanish sites.

The criteria for the evaluation in this category are the following:

• Quality of information,
  
• Design,
  
• Navigation,
  
• Accessibility,
  
• Popularity,
  
• Usability,
  
• User interactivity.

Find out the names of the nominees in the Best Website category: http://premiosdeinternet.org/index.php?body=categoria&id_rubrique=4&id_donnees=462

Schedule for Internet Awards

• May 6, 2009: Jury Meeting and announcement of the TOP 10 finalists in each category. End of voting process.
• May 11, 2009: Press conference; announcement of TOP 3 finalists in each category.
• May 13, 2009: Winners announced and prizes presented during gala ceremony.

Awards 2009

The winners of these awards are elected through the votes of Internet users and a jury made up of relevant, prestigious personalities of the Internet world.

For this year’s Internet Awards 2009, the Association of Spanish Internet Users chose a very different format from the one used in past years.

Usually, the directors of the Association gave lectures and presented the awards. This time, the true characters will be the listeners, the digital youngsters who represent the nominated developments. They will explain the keys to their success.

The Gala Ceremony of Internet Awards 2009 will take place at the auditorium of the Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información (Capitán Haya 41), in the SETSI Salon, in Madrid, Spain, at 12:30 pm.

Internet Awards

The Internet Awards have been convoked annually since 1997. Their purpose is to acknowledge people, organizations, companies, and activities that have contributed during the previous year, in a relevant way, to the dissemination, good use, and development of the Internet.

The Internet Awards are acknowledgements and do not entail any economic consideration; their character is international.