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The 2006 Discover Hong Kong Year promotional DVD, Moments of Discovery, took away the Grand Award in the Best of Tourism Promotion category at the 17th annual Questar Festival held in New York.
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The Moments of Discovery TVC (120 sec) also won a Gold Award in both the “Associations, Government and Non-Profit Organizations/Other/Miscellaneous” and the “Broadcast & Cable: Tourism/Travel/Destination Promotion” categories of the Questar Awards 2006.
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The 2006 Discover Hong Kong Year "Moments of Discovery" Posters won a silver award in the Posters category of the Astrid Awards 2006.
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The 2006 Discover Hong Kong Year "Moments of Discovery" TVC (120 sec) won an honour in the Advertisements - Broadcast & Cable category of the Astrid Awards 2006.
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The Young Office Ladies Booster Campaign won a bronze award in the Campaigns (Other/Misc: Promotion with 3rd party targeted market) category of the Astrid Awards 2006.
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The Hong Kong Experiences TVC aired on regional TV channels won a bronze award for the Best TV category of the 2006 4A's Media Awards.
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The HKTB "Hong Kong Experiences" video won a gold award in the CVB/Destination/Convention Centre category of the Adrian Awards 2005.
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Hong Kong was voted "Favourite City in the World" by readers of Business Traveller China. The city's airport was also considered the "Best Airport in China".
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The HKTB's "Hong Kong Experiences" video was rewarded with a "Mention" at the Grand Prix International Film Festival in Vienna organised by the International Committee of Tourism Film Festival (CIFFT). Formed in 1989, the Committee selects the best tourism film/video in the world each year, which will receive the Grand Prix CIFFT, while the second ranked will receive a "Mention" as a sign of recognition.
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The HKTB took away a number of awards in the 16th Annual International GALAXY 2005 Awards, which honour excellence in product and service marketing. These included:
"Discover a New Hong Kong" video won a silver award in the Videos & DVDs – Travel/Destination category of the Galaxy Awards 2005.
The "Young Office Ladies Booster Campaign 2005" took away a bronze award in the Promotion – Targeted Marketing category.
The 2003-04 Annual Report was presented with an honour in the Annual Report – Non-profit Organisation category.
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Hong Kong was named "Destination of the Year" in the TTG Asia Awards 2005.
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The HKTB's "Hong Kong Movie Odyssey" advertising campaign won the "Best Travel & Tourism Campaign Award" by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia, the second time the HKTB has won this prestigious award in the cable and satellite industry.
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HKTB's E-zine won the "Best E-zine Website" Web Award from the Web Marketing Association, which was founded in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing and corporate web development on the World Wide Web. This competition has been held for nine years and a record 2,100 entries from 33 countries and regions around the world were received in 2005. Judges include members of the media, advertising executives, site designers, content providers and webmasters.
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Readers of The Guardian and The Observer, respectively among Britain's most upmarket daily and Sunday newspapers, heaped praise on Hong Kong in the titles' Travel Awards 2005. Rating cities not only by the number of votes cast but also in terms of satisfaction, the readers voted Hong Kong into third place overall in the Favourite Overseas City ranking, the highest placing achieved by an Asian city, with a score of 95.7%. Among other Asian cities featuring on the listing were Tokyo (9), Singapore (22) and Bangkok (40).
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The HKTB's "Hong Kong Experiences" video was bestowed with an honour in the Association, Government & Non-Profit Organisation – Tourism/Travel/Destination Promotion category of the Quester Awards 2005. The video captures the emotional and magical moments between local residents and visitors and highlights Hong Kong's four core pillars of Shopping, Dining, City/Harbour/Green, and Culture and Heritage.
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The HKTB's marketing initiatives took away a number of awards in the annual Astrid Award, which honours outstanding achievement in specifically Design Communication. Running for the 14th year, Astrid Award symbolises the stellar qualities of creativity, craft, innovation and originality in design. This year, the Award received over 400 entries from 17 countries. The accolades won by the HKTB included:
"Hong Kong Movie Odyssey" campaign won a Silver Award in the Advertisements – Broadcast and Cable – Campaign Series.
"Hong Kong Experiences" video won a Silver Award in the Video – Travel/Tourism category.
"Trade Show Module Design for HKTB Worldwide Offices" took away a Bronze Award in the Special Projects – Exhibition category.
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At the 2005 US International Film and Video Festival Awards, the HKTB's "Hong Kong Experiences" video secured the first place in the Gold Camera Award while the "Discover a New Hong Kong" video was accorded second place in the Silver Screen Award.
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The HKTB's Four Hong Kong Experiences video was given a Gold Award in the Travel Video category by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) during its Annual Conference in Macau.
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For the 5th year running, Hong Kong International Airport was voted as the world's best in the Airport of the Year survey conducted by independent UK-based aviation research institute Skytrax. Conducted globally from June 2004 to March 2005, the survey attracted more than 5.5 million respondents of over 90 nationalities.
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Hong Kong International Airport was rated the Best Airport Worldwide in the AETRA survey. This year-round survey of 48 major international airports is jointly run by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Airports Council International (ACI), and is regarded as a leading industry benchmark.
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Readers of Meetings & Incentive Travel magazine in the UK voted HKTB's meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions division as the "Best Convention Bureau" in the Incentive Travel Category. The voting was conducted online on the magazine's official web site and is completely independent. The magazine asked their subscribers to judge on a minimum of 7 awards by e-mail, which results were monitored to ensure that there were no duplications.
A total of 25 awards were given under the Meetings and the Incentive Travel categories. In addition to the accolade achieved by the HKTB, Hong Kong was ranked 10th place in the voting for "Top Conference Destination", while the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) came second under the category of "Overseas Purpose-Built Venues".
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Hong Kong was selected as one of the 14 classic destinations in the world by National Geographic Traveler magazine.
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Hong Kong was voted by readers of Guangzhou Daily as the most cosmopolitan destination in 2004.
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The HKTB's Hong Kong - Live it, Love it! TV commercial won a Gold Award in the 2004 Adrian Awards organised by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International.
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Hong Kong was chosen by corporate meeting planners as one of the most popular CEI locations and the third most popular destination for incentive business in a survey by CEI.
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Readers of Australia's Luxury Travel Magazine have rated Hong Kong the fifth best overseas city and the highest ranked in Asia in the publication's inaugural Gold List awards.
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A Design for Asia Award was given to Lantern Wonderland from the HKTB's 2003 Mid-Autumn Lantern Celebration by the Hong Kong Design Centre.
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Travel Weekly China presented the HKTB with the travel trade publication's annual award for Best Tourism Board.
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The Dragon's Back Trail in Hong Kong's Shek O Country Park was hailed by the Asia edition of the international newsweekly Time as the continent's Best Urban Hike.
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The HKTB's Hong Kong - Live it, Love it! TV advertising campaign aired on National Geographic Channel Asia won the Best Travel and Tourism Campaign Award by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia.
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Readers of Recommend , an influential US publication for travel agents, voted Hong Kong the Best Selling Destination - Asia/South Pacific in the 8th Annual Readers' Choice Awards.
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Lantern Wonderland at the HKTB's Mid-Autumn Lantern Celebration in 2003 was presented with a Merit Award by the American Institute of Architects, Northwest and Pacific Region.
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The HKTB's Hong Kong - Live it, Love it! TV commercial won a Grand Award in the Tourism category of the 2004 Questar Awards for Outstanding Achievements in Corporate Video. The HKTB's Strato-Fantasia video also won a silver award in the Questar Tourism/Travel/Destination promotion category.
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The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) bestowed a Gold Award on the HKTB's "Hong Kong Welcomes You!" promotion in 2003 at its Annual Conference, held in Jeju, Korea.
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The HKTB's Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration video won a Gold Award in the Video: Travel/Tourism category in the Astrid 2004 Awards.
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The International Air Transport Association named Hong Kong International Airport the world's best. It also bestowed on the airport a Recognition Award for leading levels of service.
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For the 4th year running, Hong Kong International Airport was voted as the world's best in the Airport of the Year survey conducted by independent UK-based aviation research institute Skytrax. Conducted over a 10-month period, the survey attracted 4.85 million nominations.
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The HKTB's Hong Kong - Live it, Love it! TV commercial was named Best Spot Advertisment at the 29th Filmondo - The International Tourist Film Festival in Milan, Italy.
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The HKTB's Hong Kong - Live it, Love it! TV commercial won a Gold Compass Award in the Spots + Clips category in the Prix ITB 2004 at ITB Berlin.
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Hong Kong was voted Best Turnaround Destination and Best Destination Experience - Independent Sightseeing in the 8th annual survey of ports and destinations among cruise lines and cruise-ship captains conducted by Dream World Cruise Destinations magazine.
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Meetings and Incentive Travel Magazine named the HKTB Best Overseas Convention Bureau, 2004 in the Meetings Category and Best Convention Bureau 2004 in the Incentive Travel Category.
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Hong Kong was named best Asia/Pacific Destination in the first annual Readers' Choice Awards organised by US-based industry gazette Travel Weekly.
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June 2006