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Mandy Chomat, vice president of sales and marketing for Karisma Hotels & Resorts, and his wife, Cristina.

Marilee McInnis, public relations manager of Southwest Airlines, accepted the Best Domestic Airline award for her company.

Virgin Atlantic took the top prize in the Best International Airline category; Jim Mezoff, Virgin Atlantic's vice president of marketing for North America, accepted.

James Boyd, Singapore Airlines' vice president of public relations for the U.S., accepted the first Readers' Choice Award in the Best Business/First Class category.

Travel Weekly Publisher Bob Sullivan and Pamela Wright, Hertz's division vice president of travel industry and partnership sales. Hertz grabbed Best in Car Rental honors in both the domestic and international categories.

Sullivan and Travel Weekly Editor in Chief Arnie Weissmann, right, with Benjamin Sinclair, director of sales and marketing at the St. Regis New York. Sinclair accepted the Best Resort Worldwide award on behalf of the St. Regis Bora Bora. It was the resort's second consecutive win in the category.

Rocky Mountaineer's sales director, Elizabeth Johnsen, and sales vice president, Bob Nicholas, accepted the Best Rail Vacations award.

Best GDS was among this year's new categories. Sabre, the leading U.S. system by market share, won the inaugural award. Accepting were Gerry Moore-Murray, Sabre's Eastern Division vice president, and Deirdre Copjec, Eastern Division account director.

Starwood won the Best in Hawaii/South Pacific title for the second consecutive year, and Westin won Best in Upscale, also for the second year in a row. John Mannion, center, director of sales and marketing programs at Starwood's Luxury Collection, accepted both awards.

Julius Robinson, Marriott International's vice president of sales, accepted the company's awards for Best Domestic Hotel Chain and Best Sales & Service.

Sandals Resorts' Warren Cohen, senior vice president of marketing and sales development, accepted his company's awards for Best in Caribbean and Best in All-Inclusive.

Riu Hotels & Resorts took home the Best in Mexico award. Riu's public relations manager, Albert Martinez, accepted on his company's behalf.

For the second consecutive year, InterContinental Hotels Group took the Best Hotel honors for Asia and Europe. Alice McQuade of InterContinental, left, and Laura Fastie of American Express accepted the awards.

Karisma Hotels & Resorts took the top prize in the Boutique category. Mandy Chomat, Karisma's vice president of sales and marketing, accepted the award.

The Bellagio won in the Best in Las Vegas category. Ed Fiorovante of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority accepted on the Bellagio's behalf.

Trafalgar Sales Vice President Melanie Cole accepted her company's award for Best International Tour Operator.

Pacific Delight President Larry Kwan took home the prize for Best in Asia-Pacific.

Tauck World Discovery CEO Dan Mahar accepted his company's award for Best Tour Operator, Canada.

Gogo Worldwide Vacations President Michele Kish accepted her company's Best Domestic Tour Operator and Best in the Caribbean awards.

Globus President and CEO Scott Nisbet, center, with Sullivan and Weissmann after taking the Best in Europe prize for the fifth year in a row.

Pleasant Holidays took the Best in Hawaii tour operator category; Amy Terada accepted the award.

Travel Impressions took the Sales & Service honors; accepting were, from left, Steve Gorga, Elyse Elkin, Francesca Bonavita of American Express and John Hanratty.

Crystal Cruises President Gregg Michel accepted his company's Best Luxury Cruise Line prize.

Kirk Neal and John Migliori of Carnival Cruise Lines.

Alycia Oliphant and Anthony Viciana of Princess Cruises and Cunard Line.

Dondra Ritzenthaler of Celebrity Cruises.

Charlie Dunwoody and Christine Stevens of Holland America Line.

Ken Muskat, Vicki Freed and Joanne Schimelman of Royal Caribbean International.

Viking River Cruises was named Best River Cruise Line for the fourth consecutive year. Michele Saegesser, Viking's sales vice president, accepted the award.

John Lynch, left, and Anthony King accepted the Best Caribbean Destination award for Jamaica.

Dayna Miller of Tourism Vancouver accepted the Best in Canada award.

Riccardo Strano of the Italian Government Tourist Board in New York accepted the Best European City (Rome) and Best European Country awards.

Terryl Vencl of the Maui Visitors Bureau took home the Best in Hawaii and Best U.S. State awards.

The Riviera Maya Tourism Bureau's Gabriela Verduzco and Javier Aranda accepted the Best in Mexico honors.

Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Phillip Gordon, chairman of the Globus Family of Brands, has spent more than 30 years with the company.

Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Priscilla Alexander is founder and president of Protravel International, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year.

Lifetime Achievement Award winners: Tim and Nina Zagat, early pioneers of user-generated content, turned Zagat Survey from a hobby in 1979 to a multimillion-dollar publishing company today.

Nadine Godwin was honored for her 40 years as a travel journalist. She retired as TW editor at large last month.