World Travel Awards: Tech winners include Connexion, Samsung, Cathay Pacific

The World Travel Awards was conceived in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world’s travel and tourism industry. This division of the World Travel Group surveys thousands of travel professionals for their rating of industry providers and has announced the winners for 2005.

Connexion was the recipient of the World Travel Award for World’s Leading High-Speed In-flight Internet Services for the third year running.

Cathay Pacific won again, and in the past was selected for innovations such as their notifly service which uses SMS messaging technology to provide passengers real-time updates about their travel itinerary.