IWTA NOMINATIONS 2026

Why Nominate?

The Inspiring Women in Travel (Asia) Awards is more than a ceremony; it is a movement to spotlight the architects of Asia’s tourism future.

By submitting a nomination, you are helping to:

Elevate Excellence: Provide unparalleled recognition for women who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, resilience, and creative problem-solving in an evolving market.

Shape Industry Benchmarks: Celebrate the disruptors and innovators who are setting new standards for sustainability, customer experience, and business growth across the continent.

Build a Global Platform: Offer your nominee the opportunity to join an elite network of professionals, gaining visibility among industry titans and global decision-makers.

Your name

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Who would you like to nominate?

Name of Nominee

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CHOOSE YOUR CATEGORY

CRITERIA:

Must be mid-management to executive level.
Provide career overview and diversity initiatives led.
Show measurable outcomes in improving equity and inclusion.
Detail impact on culture, organisation, or industry.

CRITERIA:

Minimum 3-5 years’ industry experience.
Actively acting as a role model, encouraging others, and helping team members realize their full potential.
Demonstrated, ongoing commitment to mentoring peers or junior professionals.
Evidence that the mentorship has positively impacted mentees' careers and helped build a highly skilled and engaged workforce.

CRITERIA:

Measurable social impact, dedication to traveler safety, and innovative community-based business models.

CRITERIA:

Clear and compelling examples of large scale strategic vision
Business transformation and super app style eco system building
Details re market impact, technological scale, and/or successful execution of cross-indsutry partnerships

CRITERIA:

Open to all levels
Provide career and overview of innovative contributions
Detail measureable impact on efficiency, products or customer experience
Show evidence of inspiring others through innovation

CRITERIA:

Must have founded and own/led a business operating for 3+ years.
Provide entrepreneurial story and achievements.
Detail how business has influenced travel (e.g., programs, policies, platforms, purpose-led campaigns, etc.).
Show examples of inspiring or empowering others through their success, with measurable impact, wherever possible.

CRITERIA:

Must have 3–5 years of industry experience.
Provide career overview and achievements that demonstrate their leadership potential.
Detail contributions that go beyond the usual expectations for someone at this level and/or their specific role.
Show evidence of being a role model for peers

CRITERIA:

Must be in a leadership or executive role and known for a growth mindset.
Show proof of being an inclusive leader and inspiring figure during times of dramatic or rapid change, championing diverse perspectives to ensure all team members feel valued and that new solutions emerge.
Provide examples of transformation projects led, showing impact on people, performance, positioning, and/or profits.

CRITERIA:

Open to all levels, with examples of:
Education: whether actively producing content, workshops, or campaigns that educate the industry and public on regenerative principles or training local communities, hospitality staff, or students in restoration skills like permaculture or circular economy waste management.
Transition planning: Demonstrating a clear, actionable roadmap where an existing business is actively moving away from extractive practices toward net-positive goals.
Community alignment: Engaging local stakeholders and indigenous voices directly in the educational and planning process to ensure their needs guide the strategy.

CRITERIA:

Open to all levels.
Provide career overview and show evidence of protecting cultural or natural heritage during new developments in Asian markets.
Detail CSR campaigns, green operations and strategic stakeholder engagement initiatives, wherever appropriate.

CRITERIA:

Can have been in the industry for any length of time.
Embodies the core characteristics of inspiring people:
Is courageous and resilient
Has empathy/ is emotionally healthy, capable of openly expressing love and appreciation
Focuses on doing what is best/right for the collective good
Fosters equality and lifting others up through advocacy, etc.
Has overcome particularly challenging circumstances to become a success while helping others rise OR
Has achieved or started something remarkable (a movement, a project) that is making waves
Detail measurable impact on others/the travel industry across Asia in the past 12-24 months.

CRITERIA:

20+ years in the industry
A track record of mentoring and being a role model for others
Consistently recognized for excellence in various dimensions of the business and/or communities
Evidence of unique contributions that have left a permanent imprint on how the travel industry operates

Proposed 2nd Award (optional)

CRITERIA:

Must be mid-management to executive level.
Provide career overview and diversity initiatives led.
Show measurable outcomes in improving equity and inclusion.
Detail impact on culture, organisation, or industry.

CRITERIA:

Minimum 3-5 years’ industry experience.
Actively acting as a role model, encouraging others, and helping team members realize their full potential.
Demonstrated, ongoing commitment to mentoring peers or junior professionals.
Evidence that the mentorship has positively impacted mentees' careers and helped build a highly skilled and engaged workforce.

CRITERIA:

Measurable social impact, dedication to traveler safety, and innovative community-based business models.

CRITERIA:

Clear and compelling examples of large scale strategic vision
Business transformation and super app style eco system building
Details re market impact, technological scale, and/or successful execution of cross-indsutry partnerships

CRITERIA:

Open to all levels
Provide career and overview of innovative contributions
Detail measureable impact on efficiency, products or customer experience
Show evidence of inspiring others through innovation

CRITERIA:

Must have founded and own/led a business operating for 3+ years.
Provide entrepreneurial story and achievements.
Detail how business has influenced travel (e.g., programs, policies, platforms, purpose-led campaigns, etc.).
Show examples of inspiring or empowering others through their success, with measurable impact, wherever possible.

CRITERIA:

Must have 3–5 years of industry experience.
Provide career overview and achievements that demonstrate their leadership potential.
Detail contributions that go beyond the usual expectations for someone at this level and/or their specific role.
Show evidence of being a role model for peers

CRITERIA:

Must be in a leadership or executive role and known for a growth mindset.
Show proof of being an inclusive leader and inspiring figure during times of dramatic or rapid change, championing diverse perspectives to ensure all team members feel valued and that new solutions emerge.
Provide examples of transformation projects led, showing impact on people, performance, positioning, and/or profits.

CRITERIA:

Open to all levels, with examples of:
Education: whether actively producing content, workshops, or campaigns that educate the industry and public on regenerative principles or training local communities, hospitality staff, or students in restoration skills like permaculture or circular economy waste management.
Transition planning: Demonstrating a clear, actionable roadmap where an existing business is actively moving away from extractive practices toward net-positive goals.
Community alignment: Engaging local stakeholders and indigenous voices directly in the educational and planning process to ensure their needs guide the strategy.

CRITERIA:

Open to all levels.
Provide career overview and show evidence of protecting cultural or natural heritage during new developments in Asian markets.
Detail CSR campaigns, green operations and strategic stakeholder engagement initiatives, wherever appropriate.

CRITERIA:

Can have been in the industry for any length of time.
Embodies the core characteristics of inspiring people:
Is courageous and resilient
Has empathy/ is emotionally healthy, capable of openly expressing love and appreciation
Focuses on doing what is best/right for the collective good
Fosters equality and lifting others up through advocacy, etc.
Has overcome particularly challenging circumstances to become a success while helping others rise OR
Has achieved or started something remarkable (a movement, a project) that is making waves
Detail measurable impact on others/the travel industry across Asia in the past 12-24 months.

CRITERIA:

20+ years in the industry
A track record of mentoring and being a role model for others
Consistently recognized for excellence in various dimensions of the business and/or communities
Evidence of unique contributions that have left a permanent imprint on how the travel industry operates

Provide a career overview detailing your/her professional achievements.

Give reasons why you/she should be chosen as the Award recipient.

Describe how you/she is a role model to your/her subordinates and other professionals.

Detail positive and impactful contributions and innovations that you/she has made in your/her top-level position in your/her current organization and beyond your/her job role that drive business growth.

Please upload a profile photo of the Nominee (if possible)