Yes, it’s that time of year again, time for the EyeforTravel Innovation & Start-Up in Travel Awards 2014

Do you have a cool tool for the online travel industry, an app for life or cross-platform concept for an omnichannel world? If so, we want to hear from you. You don’t have to be a start up! You can be a big name with an innovative concept. After all, every well-known online travel brand was once a startup but only those that have kept innovating will survive.

Why enter?

Because if you make it through the first stage and into the top four, you will get to pitch your product or service to 400+ senior travel industry executives during the key note session on Day 1 of the Travel Distribution Summit, North America which takes place in New York on September 10-11. The audience will then vote and the winner will be crowned as the event wraps up on Day 2.

Previous entrants and winners include Room 77, which is now backed by Expedia and has had Google license its hotel booking software. Housetrip, today one of the world’s largest holiday rentals website, iRates, the revenue management solution for small to medium companies and OptionsAway, which will hold your cheap flight for 21 days, and others.

What are we looking for?

It’s quite simple. Any start up or established company that is developing or launching a new and innovative product, service or technology solution for the online travel industry. You can be consumer facing or industry facing or a bit of both, but you need to be on to something that could change the game.

This year’s judges of the first stage are Richard Wells, Managing Director, Insight Venture Partners 
Gustaf Burman, CTO, Morgans Hotel Group
 Susan Black, Founding Partner, Black & Wright 
and Matt Zito, Founder, Travel Startups. They’ll be there to give feedback to those knocked out in the first stage, so even if you don’t make the top four, you’ll still gain insights and honest feedback from well-established industry names. What’s more, you’ll have the chance to make new contacts and gain valuable exposure.

Do not delay! Enter now and you stand to leave New York with possibility of seeing your company become a household name.