Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group Win the 2008 World Travel Award as Central America`s Leading Travel Agency

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, September 14, 2008 --(PR.com)-- One of the most waited-for yearly events amongst Travel Professional worldwide is the glamorous Awards Ceremony for the renowned World Travel Awards. This ceremony is held during the World Travel Awards Grand Tour in several destinations for the categories in the respective regions. The Awards Ceremony for categories in North and Central America was held on September 6th in Orlando, USA, during THETRADESHOW with participation of 250 senior industry leaders.

More than 100 Central American, 160 North American and 100 Canadian organizations have been nominated in their respective regional categories, including airlines, airports, hotels, car hire, destinations, resorts, spas and travel agencies. Thousands of votes were cast by travel professionals from 167,000 travel agencies, tour and transport companies and tourism organizations in over 160 countries across the globe. These elected Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group as Central America’s Leading Travel Agency. http://www.worldtravelawards.com/winners2008-7

Intelligent Leisure Solutions (ILS3) and the Discover Travel Group is an Online Travel Company for Central America and South America that offers luxury, custom-made trips, accommodations, packages and tours to travelers and MICE clients seeking differentiated travel experiences.

Recognized by the Wall Street Journal as the "Oscars of the Travel Industry", on its 15th anniversary the World Travel Awards is the world’s most reputable and the only global awards of its kind, honoring world class travel products of exceptional quality and value. Being elected winner of this award to Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group means not only recognition of the excellence of their service and the exceptional quality of their travel products which leads to this high satisfaction of their clients, partners and suppliers worldwide who have voted for them. It is also an incentive and an opportunity to improve and expand their services of creating the ideal luxury travel package for Dream Society Travelers.

Graham E. Cooke, President and Founder of World Travel Awards explains:
"The overriding objective of the World Travel Awards is to encourage and stimulate business excellence within the international travel and tourism industry. (…) Winning one of the awards not only brings a travel company or destination acknowledgement and respect from the global industry, but also offers valuable commercial and profiling benefits. Increasingly in recent years, we have found that consumers are checking the winners of the World Travel Awards in order to attain reassurance and peace of mind when booking a trip. Our overall objective has always been to encourage greater quality and above all, supreme customer experience.”

Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group are also nominated for the World Travel Awards 2008 in the category: South America’s Leading Travel Management Company. Voting for this is open until 21st September.

Robert Phillips, Managing Director of the Discover Travel Group and ASTA Chapter President for Brazil says:
“We thank our clients, partners and suppliers who voted for us in this category and count with their and further votes in the category of South America’s Leading Travel Management Company.”

Votes can be cast on http://www.worldtravelawards.com/vote. The winners of the categories for South America will be published in the ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on 21st October.

Further information on Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group, as well as on their Luxury South or Central America Travel Services can be found the websites www.DiscoverBrazil.com, www.DiscoverSouthAmerica.Travel, www.DiscocverCentralAmerica.Travel. Through the site’s contact form interested travelers can submit a request and have one of their specialized Travel Consultants create the ideal travel package individually according to their wishes and ideas.

Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group:
· Won the 2008 Ulysses Award for Innovation in Tourism Enterprises from the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization),
· Won the World Travel Award 2008 for Central America’s Leading Travel Agency,
· Are nominated as South America’s Leading Travel Management Company for the World Travel Awards 2008
· Managing Partner Robert Phillips was elected ASTA Chapter President for Brazil.
· Was selected by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism as an Affiliate Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
· Is authenticated by the Tralliance Corporation and the .Travel Registry.

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