JAMAICA
10-15 OCTOBER 2026
WORLD TRAVEL WEEK 2026
JAMAICA
The first symposium of events for the Travel sector. In collaboration with World Travel Awards these series of World Days will celebrate the best from all regions around the globe.
World Travel Awards™ was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all key sectors of the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Today, the World Travel Awards™ brand is recognised globally as the ultimate hallmark of industry excellence.
All events will run at various venues in Jamaica:
Let’s explore, relax, and play. Take in new sites, sounds, and flavours. Experiences that are truly memorable.
SCHEDULE
A Dynamic 6-Day Experience of Insight, Innovation & Celebration
Each day of the Travel Week is designed to inspire and connect. From 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, attendees can dive into a rich program featuring live conferences, breakout sessions, EXPO showcases, and virtual streaming for global accessibility—ensuring no voice or innovation is left unheard.
As the sun sets, the energy rises. Join us each evening at 7:00 PM for our Awards Night, a spectacular celebration honoring excellence across the travel industry.
World Travel Week Jamaica Programme
10 October
Venue - Princess Grand Jamaica
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Cocktails and Networking
11 October
Venue - Princess Grand Jamaica
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World Travel Awards Caribbean Gala Ceremony
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World Travel Awards Central America Gala Ceremony
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World Travel Awards North America Gala Ceremony
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World Travel Awards South America Gala Ceremony
12 October
Venue - Princess Grand Jamaica
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World MICE Awards
Venue - Princess Senses The Mangrove
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10 Best
13 October
Venue - Princess Grand Jamaica
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World Culinary Awards
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World Social Media Awards
14 October
Venue - Princess Grand Jamaica
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World Travel Tech Awards
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World Cruise Awards
15 October
Venue - Princess Grand Jamaica
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World Villa Awards
Global Tourism Resilience Awards
The Global Tourism Resilience Awards will be presented across each of the World Travel Week events
WORLD TRAVEL AWARDS
World Travel Awards is a global awards programme recognising excellence across the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Established in 1993, it celebrates leading destinations, hotels, resorts, airlines, airports, cruise companies, tour operators and travel brands worldwide, with winners regarded as benchmarks for quality and service across the sector. The programme is designed to reward industry leadership, promote best practice and showcase the organisations shaping the future of global travel.
WORLD CRUISE AWARDS
World Cruise Awards celebrates excellence across the global cruise industry, recognizing the world’s best cruise lines, destinations, ports, ships, and onboard experiences. With votes from cruise professionals and travelers, the awards spotlight outstanding achievement and help guide guests toward unforgettable cruise journeys.
WORLD MICE AWARDS
World MICE Awards serves as the global benchmark for excellence in the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry. Honouring the leading destinations, venues, and service providers, the awards recognise innovation, service quality, and outstanding performance across the global MICE landscape. As a sister event to the World Travel Awards, it helps elevate standards and spotlight excellence throughout the sector.
WORLD VILLA AWARDS
The World Villa Awards honors the finest luxury villas and private retreats across the globe, celebrating excellence in design, service, and guest experience. Recognized as the ultimate symbol of prestige in the world of bespoke travel, the awards spotlight exceptional properties that redefine privacy, comfort, and style — from contemporary cliffside escapes to historic estates and island sanctuaries. Each year, the World Villa Awards brings together leaders in hospitality, architecture, and lifestyle to acknowledge those who set new standards in personalized luxury, sustainability, and unforgettable living experiences in the world’s most extraordinary destinations.
WORLD SOCIAL MEDIA AWARDS
World Social Media Awards is a global awards platform created to recognise, reward and celebrate excellence in social media talent, content and digital influence. The awards highlight the diversity, reach and creativity of today’s connected world, with categories designed to reflect different geographies, platforms, media formats and emerging social channels. Positioned as a public-voted global ceremony, the programme celebrates the creators, brands, personalities and digital communities shaping how audiences engage, communicate and discover culture online.
WORLD CULINARY AWARDS
World Culinary Awards is a global awards programme dedicated to celebrating and rewarding excellence across the culinary industry. The platform recognises leading restaurants, culinary destinations, restaurant brands, culinary hotels, hotel restaurants, culinary experiences, festivals, tour operators, training institutions and catering companies, showcasing the organisations and individuals setting benchmarks for quality, creativity and guest experience. Its categories span subregional, regional and world levels, giving culinary brands the opportunity to compete locally, regionally and globally.
WORLD TRAVEL TECH AWARDS
World Travel Tech Awards is a global awards programme created to recognise, reward and celebrate excellence across the travel technology sector. The awards highlight the platforms, providers and innovations transforming how travel is searched, booked, managed and experienced, with categories spanning AI travel technology, airline and airport technology, hotel systems, booking apps, travel marketplaces, payments, cruise tech, smart tourism, travel startups and more. Now in its fifth annual edition, the programme provides a global benchmark for digital innovation and customer experience across the travel industry.
10 BEST
10 Best is a curated travel and lifestyle platform designed to showcase the finest destinations, hotels, restaurants, attractions, spas, nightlife, cultural experiences and local highlights around the world. The concept provides travellers with trusted, easy-to-browse “best of” guides, helping them discover standout places and experiences in each destination. Positioned as both an inspiration hub and practical planning tool, 10 Best celebrates excellence across global travel while connecting audiences with memorable experiences, insider recommendations and destination highlights.
Global Tourism Resilience Awards
The Global Tourism Resilience Awards will be presented across all 9 World Travel Week events, recognising destinations, organisations, tourism boards, corporations and industry leaders that are strengthening the future of global tourism through crisis preparedness, destination recovery, sustainability, climate readiness, innovation, community empowerment and long-term economic resilience. By integrating the awards throughout the programme, World Travel Week will create consistent high-impact moments of recognition and position resilience as a central theme across the week.
INFLUENCERS TOUR OF JAMAICA
VENUES
World Travel Week arrives in Jamaica with a programme designed to feel as vibrant, polished and unforgettable as the island itself. Across 6 days, the spotlight moves between two exceptional host venues, Princess Grand Jamaica and Princess Senses The Mangrove, creating a high-energy celebration of travel, technology, culture, luxury, culinary excellence, social media, MICE, cruise and villa experiences.
The week opens on 10 October at Princess Grand Jamaica with Cocktails and Networking, setting the tone for an extraordinary programme. With its sleek oceanfront design, expansive resort facilities and unmistakable sense of occasion, Princess Grand Jamaica provides a spectacular setting for welcoming guests, partners and industry leaders to World Travel Week.
On 11 October, Princess Grand Jamaica hosts the World Travel Awards Caribbean, Central America, North America and South America Gala Ceremonies. The evening brings together the brands, destinations and leaders defining excellence across the Americas, transforming the resort into a prestigious stage for one of the travel industry’s most celebrated awards programmes.
On 12 October, Princess Grand Jamaica returns to the spotlight for the World MICE Awards, placing the global meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions industry at the heart of the programme. It is a celebration of the planners, venues and destinations that turn business travel into extraordinary experiences.
Also on 12 October, Princess Senses The Mangrove hosts 10 Best, adding an adults-only layer of sophistication to the week. Surrounded by natural beauty and designed with a sleek, contemporary edge, the resort captures the curated spirit of 10 Best: stylish, selective and experience-led.
On 13 October, Princess Grand Jamaica becomes the setting for both the World Culinary Awards and the World Social Media Awards. The programme turns from gastronomy to digital influence, celebrating the chefs, restaurants, hotels and destinations shaping the global food scene, alongside the creators, platforms and brands leading excellence in social media, content and online engagement.
On 14 October, Princess Grand Jamaica hosts the World Travel Tech Awards and the World Cruise Awards, bringing together two dynamic sectors shaping the future of global travel. Innovation, digital transformation and travel technology take centre stage alongside the cruise lines, ports and destinations leading the cruise industry forward.
The finale arrives on 15 October at Princess Grand Jamaica with the World Villa Awards. The ceremony closes World Travel Week with a celebration of privacy, design, luxury living and the world’s most exceptional villa experiences, providing a fitting conclusion to a programme defined by elegance, ambition and global recognition.
Throughout the programme, the Global Tourism Resilience Awards will also be presented across each of the World Travel Week events, recognising destinations, organisations and leaders advancing crisis preparedness, recovery, sustainability, innovation and long-term resilience in global tourism.
Together, these two venues turn World Travel Week into more than a calendar of events. They create a journey through the very best of Jamaica: glamorous, global, sun-drenched and alive with possibility.
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