Really wholesome and user friendly site. It's in the upper echelon stylistically as the content is very well set-out and is appealing to the online readership.

PlanBookTravel have a fast, clean, informative site that is very easy to use. The search function is intellgent and returns exactly what you are looking for. Their Online Content Made Easy Program that is currently underway which show initiative and leadership in the online tourism industry.

I'd like to nominate http://www.tourradar.com – the ad network for tours in the category of Best Niche Website.

TourRadar is an ad network for tours with a goal to make every tour in the world discoverable. Why? Because in 2003 the Founders realised it wasn't possible and over the next 7 years they also found that Tour Operators had no easy way of adding, updating and tracking all of their tours into one place or no easy way to advertise all their tours on a fixed pay-per-click basis; traditional Publishers were losing Operators (advertisers) to online advertising models; successful online travel communities were struggling to monetize their web traffic; Travel Agents were unable to quickly and easily find tours that matched their client's criteria; and DMOs were spending a considerable amount of their wafer thin budgets on web development instead of marketing. TourRadar, with more than 4,000 tours worldwide, solves all these issues and more…

Our business model successfully allows us to partner, but never compete, with all the key parties in the worldwide Tour Industry.

Holidayz is a fully Australian owned company. The website was designed and developed and is operated in Australia.

The Holidayz website integrates all types of accommodation, activities, restaurants and cafes which are interactively mapped. It is user friendly, and has powerful searching capabilities, enabling users to find exactly what they want. We actively participate in social media and our users can interact directly with the website.

For "Best Niche Website" and/or "Best Tour Operator Wholesaler website"

* The first Australian based company to provide live rail inventory via a connection to the Euronet (the equivalent of a GDS for rail), making booking point to point rail, as easy as booking a Sydney – Melbourne air sector
* Read customer reviews
* Recently completely re-designed

* Air fares can be purchased either online or over the phone from anywhere to anywhere in the world.
* The only agency to feature the ability for users to search, compare and book over 60 global low cost carriers.
* Exclusive built unique travel products such as "2 Centre Package Holidays".

Additionally I would like to nominate Bestcoachtours.com.au and BestAdventures.com.au for Niche Web Site, as both sites provide users the unique ability to:

* Search over 4,500 global coach and adventure itineraries from some of the largest tour companies in the world, in an easy to use coach tour search engine.
* Browse complete itinerary breakdown, inclusions, guaranteed availability and maps of the trip.

I'm not sure which category would suit best – 'cruise' or maybe the 'niche' category would suit more?

For the first nomination, I think the best of Australia's eight official state/territory destination websites is:

– http://www.travelnt.com (Northern Territory – official)

And the second nomination is for a destination website that I'm involved with:

– http://www.travelvictoria.com.au (Victoria – not official)

We are a centralised marketing and management collaboration for small lodges in Sydney. Our approach is to centralise expensive marketing functions so our lodges can compete with the big guys in accommodation through SEO, PPC and distribution. The brand and website are both new, but have already have a loyalty program and social media content.