To sponsor an award costs just $2,500. Of that amount, $1,000 is the prize given to the award winner in the form of a cheque issued by TMAC. The other $1,000 goes towards handling all the back-office details, including sorting and coding the awards and tabulating the results, judges fees, preparing the promotional materials for the awards and creating the certificate each award winner receives. In addition, we’ve increased the amount of the awards sponsorship from $2,000 to $2,500 this year, with the additional $500 going to help to pay for the award winner to attend the following year’s conference. If the award winner can’t attend, or doesn’t need the entire $500 to cover their expenses, the money will go into the TMAC Media Subsidy Fund.

Sponsors get maximum visibility with minimum effort. Once you confirm your commitment to sponsor the award, we’ll send you an invoice. All you have to do is submit a cheque for $2,500, your logo for promotional materials and send someone to the podium on Awards night to hand the lucky winner his or her cheque and a certificate (both prepared by TMAC).

 

CATEGORIES

PRINT
The work will be judged on writing quality, accuracy and usefulness of information, insightfulness and innovation:

1. Best Business Feature
2. Best Cultural/Historical Feature
3. Best Environmental/Responsible Tourism Feature   
4. Best Family Feature   
5. Best Food/Wine Feature   
6. Best French Language Feature *   
7. Best Outdoors/Adventure Feature   
8. Best Service Feature   
9. Best Story about Travel in Canada NEW   
   

* The feature must be written, by the author, in French and must be something that, if it were in English, could be submitted in one of these four categories: Best Family Feature OR Best Outdoors/Adventure Feature OR Best Food/Wine Feature OR Best Cultural/Historical Feature.

The purpose of this restriction is to focus on stories where the writing quality and the strength of the narrative are the two key elements, so that the judging may be done uniformly across all entries.

PHOTOGRAPHY
The work will be judged on composition, technical quality and ability to evoke a place, moment or sentiment:

1. Best Action Photo   
2. Best Evocation of a Place Photo
3. Best People Photo 

Download the 2011 TMAC Awards Sponsorship package here.