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From Left: Graham Cooke, President & Founder, World Travel Awards. Faisal Memon, Founder & CEO, Illusions Online. Illusions wins the Oscar of the Travel Industry once again
Illusions Online won the prestigious award of the Middle East's Leading Travel Technology Provider at the annual 2012 World Travel Awards Middle East ceremony, held on 30th April in Dubai.
The World Travel Awards is the most comprehensive and sought after awards program in the global travel and tourism industry. Established to acknowledge and celebrate excellence, World Travel Awards is recognized as the hallmark of excellence, with the winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire. Leading airlines, hotel operators, hotel developers, tourism boards, travel media, destination marketing campaigns, MICE businesses and several other companies that make a difference in the quality of travel and tourism are distinguished.
The Middle East Ceremony, hosted at the Jebel Ali Golf Resort & Spa, Dubai, kicks off the World Travel Awards Grand Tour 2012, with six events across seven continents including Caribbean & The Americas, Africa & Indian, Europe, Asia & Australasia Gala Ceremonies, culminating with the Grand Final.
Illusions Online recognized as the world's fastest growing 50 companies by winning the Fast 50 award.
Leading travel technology provider Illusions Online has ranked as one of the world's fastest growing 50 companies in a prestigious listing recognising organisations that are leaders in their field.
The Dubai-based firm has been declared a 'Fast 50' award winner (www.fast50.com) – an initiative by The New Europe magazine, which is based on the votes of some of the world's top directors, CEOs and travel industry notables.
Within the technology category, Illusions was one of three-shortlisted companies announced back in March and of the 4,352 votes cast, the firm received the most votes at 2,901, marking one of the highest majority margins on Fast 50's records.
An e-voting card was sent to more than 75,000 CEOs and company directors worldwide, the entire The New Europe magazine database (both subscribers and its online audience), as well as Illusions' contacts in the UAE and North America and 15,000 company directors and buyers of travel technology at Destination Management Companies and tour operators.
The nominations were followed up by The New Europe's dedicated research team and judged by an independent panel, which comprised current and former FTSE 100 CEOs, a well-documented thought leader and author from a world-renowned business school, the chairman of one of Europe's largest public sector organisations plus for the technology category, a specially-commissioned travel technology expert.
In an interview with The New Europe, which highlighted the success of Illusions Online and its pioneering CEO, Faisal Memon, the company was described as leading the way in "providing a multi-user platform that makes the interaction between the traveller and the world beyond seamless, beyond expectation".
The article praised Illusions for bringing together a "bewildering array of variables" under one platform and encompassing every part of the supply chain.
"People talk about the cloud, we've been on the cloud for years, and it allows us to distribute our platform to the different segments within the travel industry" Memon told The New Europe.
The article also recognised Illusions' market foresight by introducing the Illusions World Travel eXchange (iWTX) solution, which allows Illusions users to share content and products and generate extra business as a result.
"The idea is to be able to connect through our exchange where we have all of our customers' products (inventory) available in one marketplace; it allows them to cross-sell to each other and adds another dimension to the distribution," said Memon. "We are moving on from being another software provider to becoming a distribution partner."
Former winners of the Fast 50 awards have included prestigious organisations like Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry solution, Autodesk, Agility, WWF and Diners Club International. In the travel category, Aloft Abu Dhabi, Movenpick Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Singapore and Quintessentially are some of the big names that have received awards in the past. These are all industry leaders that have reached the very highest levels of achievement in their respective fields, and are companies who are driving their respective industries forward.
This is not the first time Illusions has been recognised for its expertise in the travel technology field having won the Middle East's 'Leading Travel Technology Provider' at the World Travel Awards in both 2009 and 2010 and the coveted 'World's Leading Travel Technology Provider' at the World Travel Awards 2009.
This year is shaping up to be another highly successful year for Illusions, which has already signed deals with some of Asia's largest Destination Management Companies (DMCs) as well as companies in the Middle East.
From Left : John Flower (Business Development Manager, Illusions Online) & David Falcon, Senior Vice President, World Travel Awards
 Middle East's Leading
Travel Technology Provider 2010
Illusions Online won the prestigious award of the Middle East's Leading Travel Technology Provider at the annual 2010 World Travel Awards Middle East ceremony, held on 4th May in Dubai.
The World Travel Awards is the most comprehensive and sought after awards program in the global travel and tourism industry. Established to acknowledge and celebrate excellence, World Travel Awards is recognized as the hallmark of excellence, with the winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire. Leading airlines, hotel operators, hotel developers, tourism boards, travel media, destination marketing campaigns, MICE businesses and several other companies that make a difference in the quality of travel and tourism are distinguished.
Faisal Memon, CEO of Illusions, commented "Winning this prestigious award again for the second year in a row is further recognition of Illusions commitment to the travel industry and highlights our ongoing investment in this dynamic field. The work of the entire team at Illusions and the continuous faith that our customers put in our technology to power their entire business - has been instrumental in us receiving the awards, so my thanks go out to them as this accolade really belongs to the Illusions team and its users."
Illusions is a global travel technology company providing online enterprise travel software solutions for Tour Operators and Destination Management Companies. In less than a decade, Illusions has created the reputation of being the world's finest travel technology provider and is proud to be partners with the strongest industry players across 5 continents.
"Challenging times continue in the travel industry; however companies, that have made a commitment to the long term, will continue to invest in technology and companies like Illusions, which provide complete automation for their business coupled with strong and robust Internet booking engines, ensure that when the industry rebounds, these companies will be ready on our platform, to capitalize on the investment that we have made together.", continued Faisal Memon.
Illusions was also awarded the World's Leading Travel Technology Provider in 2009 and has been nominated for the same category in 2010 too.
The Middle East Ceremony, hosted at The Address Dubai Marina Hotel, kicks off the World Travel Awards Grand Tour 2010, with seven events across seven continents including South Africa (Africa Ceremony); India (Asia, Australasia & Indian Ocean Ceremony); USA (North & Central America Ceremony); Brazil (South America Ceremony); Turkey (Europe Ceremony); culminating with the Grand Final in Great Britain.
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From Left : Faisal Memon (CEO, Illusions Online), Kseniya Sukhinova (Miss World 2008)
World's Leading
Travel Technology Provider 2009
Once again Illusions Online has proven to be the best; this time winning the coveted World Travel Award for being the Worlds Leading Travel Technology Provider at the 2009 Grand Ceremony held in the prestigious Grosvenor House, JW Marriott Hotel in London.
The World Travel Awards are recognized as the hallmark of excellence, with the winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire. Leading airlines, hotel operators and developers, tourism boards, travel media, destination marketing companies, MICE businesses as well as many other specialty companies that strive to make a difference in the quality of travel and tourism attended this exciting event which celebrated the best of the best in the industry.
Faisal Memon, CEO of Illusions, commented "This award is a culmination of more than a decade of commitment to our product and customers, but what's more important to remember is that this means that we have a huge responsibility to continue to deliver on our promises of providing the ultimate product for our clients along with only the best service to our users globally"
Illusions is a global travel technology company providing online enterprise travel solutions for Tour Operators and Destination Management Companies. In less than a decade, Illusions has created the reputation of being one of the world's finest travel technology provider and is proud to partner with the strongest industry players across 5 continents.
"2009 has been a very challenging year for the travel industry, but technology improvement or investment should be an important consideration for businesses looking to the future. Technology represents the opportunity to achieve more efficiency in their operations and allows them to improve revenues without affecting their HR or distribution costs. Illusions continue to be a choice for such businesses and this award reiterates our commitment to these travel companies", continued Faisal Memon.
Middle East's Leading
Travel Technology Provider 2009
Illusions Online won the prestigious award of the Middle East's Leading Travel Technology Provider at the annual 2009 World Travel Awards Middle East ceremony, held on 5th May in Dubai.
The World Travel Awards is the most comprehensive and sought after awards program in the global travel and tourism industry. Established to acknowledge and celebrate excellence, World Travel Awards is recognized as the hallmark of excellence, with the winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire. Leading airlines, hotel operators, hotel developers, tourism boards, travel media, destination marketing campaigns, MICE businesses and several other companies that make a difference in the quality of travel and tourism are distinguished.
Faisal Memon, CEO of Illusions, commented "We are delighted that Illusions has been recognized as the leading travel technology provider in the Middle East. This award underscores our commitment to our customers and our continued investment in our technology to enable them to run their businesses more efficiently. I would like to thank the entire team at Illusions for their dedicated work and commitment over all these years. This trophy truly belongs to them".
Illusions is a global travel technology company providing online enterprise travel solutions for Tour Operators and Destination Management Companies. In less than a decade, Illusions has created the reputation of the world's finest travel technology provider and is proud to partner with the strongest industry players across 5 continents.
"The travel industry is going through challenging times but the players who are in for the long-run are still investing in technology like Illusions which provides complete automation of their business coupled with strong and robust Internet booking engines. So when things rebound, and they will, these companies will be ready on our platform", continued Faisal Memon.
The Middle East Ceremony, hosted at the Monarch Dubai, kicks off the World Travel Awards Grand Tour 2009, with seven events across seven continents including Durban, South Africa (Africa Ceremony); Singapore (Asia, Australasia & Indian Ocean Ceremony); Riviera Maya, Mexico (North & Central America Ceremony); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (South America Ceremony); Óbidos, Portugal (Europe Ceremony); culminating with the Grand Final in Jamaica.
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