Lucas’ Papaw Remedies wins the Lip Balm category for 2015
TRIPADVISOR ANNOUNCES 2015 TRAVELLERS’ CHOICE FAVOURITES
Awards Highlight Travellers’ Top Products and Services Based on Feedback from
the TripAdvisor Community
SYDNEY, April 27 2015 – TripAdvisor®, the world’s largest travel site*, today announced the winners of its annual Travellers’ Choiceawards for TravelFavourites, highlighting the top products and services that help travellers have a perfect trip. There are winners from around the globe, in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S., across dozens of categories including airline, rental car agency, transportation app, GPS device, luggage, and outerwear.
“TripAdvisor has identified the Travellers’ Choice Favourites as recommended by our insightful global community,” said Barbara Messing, chief marketing officer for TripAdvisor. “These award-winning products and services, voted on by our community, are the ‘must have items’ to consider bringing on your next trip.”
Travellers’ Choice Favourites
There are 44 category winners in Australia all listed below. Winners include some perennial favourites that have won their category each year since the inception of the Travellers’ Choice Favourites in Australia in 2013. These brands include:
- Backpack: Kathmandu
- Bottled water: Mount Franklin
- Cooler: Esky
- Coffee: Lavazza
- Camera: Canon
- Energy/snack bar: Cadbury
- Flip-flops: Havaianas
- Guidebook: Lonely Planet
- Hand sanitizer: Dettol
- Headphones: Bose
- Insect repellent: Aeroguard
- Lip balm: Lucas Papaw
- Luggage: Samsonite
- Sunglasses: Ray-Ban
- Sunscreen: Cancer Council
2015 Australian Travellers’ Choice Awards for Travel Favourites
| Allergy medicine: | Claratyne | Hair dryer: | Phillips |
| Adhesive bandage: | BAND-AID® | Hand sanitizer: | Dettol |
| Domestic Airline: | Qantas | Headphones: | Apple |
| International Airline: | Qantas | Insect repellent: | Aeroguard |
| Backpack / daypack: | Kathmandu | Lip balm: | Lucas Papaw |
| Batteries: | Energizer | Luggage: | Samsonite |
| Body lotion: | Nivea | Mints: | Extra |
| Bottled water: | Mount Franklin | Mouthwash: | Listerine |
| Camping gear: | Kathmandu | Music app: | iTunes |
| Cooler (for beverages): | Esky | Noise-cancelling headphones: | Bose |
| Carry-on luggage: | Samsonite | Pain reliever: | Panadol |
| Coffee: | Lavazza | Razor: | Gillette |
| Compact digital camera: | Canon | Rental car service: | Budget |
| Dental floss: | Colgate | Ski equipment: | Atomic |
| Deodorant: | Rexona | Sleep aid: | Nature’s Own |
| Digestion aid: | Mylanta | Sunburn treatment: | Nivea |
| Energy/snack bar: | Cadbury | Sunglasses: | Ray-Ban |
| Energy drink: | Gatorade | Sunscreen or suntan lotion: | Cancer Council |
| Eye drops: | Visine | Swimwear: | Billabong |
| Flip-flops: | Havaianas | Toothbrush: | Oral-B |
| GPS device: | Apple iPhone | Toothpaste: | Colgate |
| Guide book: | Lonely Planet | Travel magazine: | Lonely Planet |
Award methodology:
Online surveys were conducted in each country and asked local travellers to select their favourite brands when they travel from a variety of brands/products in each category. 188,198 travellers worldwide (including 11,989 Australian respondents) participated in the selection process.
About TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor® is the world’s largest travel site*, enabling travellers to plan and book the perfect trip. TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from travellers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools that check hundreds of websites to find the best hotel prices. TripAdvisor branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, reaching 315 million unique monthly visitors**, and more than 200 million reviews and opinions covering more than 4.5 million accommodations, restaurants and attractions. The sites operate in 45 countries worldwide. TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to millions of monthly TripAdvisor visitors.
