THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

Travel & Tourism

This category honors the most effective and creative use of social/digital by tourism boards and services as well as travel and transportation brands and publications. Objectives may include (but are not limited to) gaining consumer trust, improving loyalty through promotions and deals and excelling in customer service.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Finalists

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EDITION Hotels x El Silencio Collaboration
EDITION x El Silencio was designed to reassert EDITION as a cultural leader by reclaiming Ibiza’s c…
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Expedition Iceland
AI-generated imagery has reshaped online perception. Real travel photography is increasingly labell…
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Icelandair: The Real Unreal
Let’s face it - the world didn’t need another AI campaign. But when AI became the reason people tho…
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MSC Cruises generates Super Bowl surround sound on social
MSC Cruises set out to do something ambitious: introduce itself to the American market not as just …
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Mother Nature's City
Destination marketing often tries to be everything to everyone, and in the process, every place sta…
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Nat Geo x Travel Maine (2025)
With the “Forged by Nature,” campaign, National Geographic CreativeWorks and Maine Office of Touris…
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Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce & Disney Experiences "My Disney Spectacular" from Walt Disney World
Position Disney Parks as a culturally fluent, modern brand by embedding it within a trusted, creato…
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Tripadvisor: From Boomer Paradise to a Gen Z Hotspot
Tripadvisor faced a relevance challenge: Gen Z experiences travel not just through bookings, but th…
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Tripadvisor: Too Fun to Focus
Tripadvisor’s “Too Fun To Focus” campaign set out to solve a core awareness problem: only 39% of Am…
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When You Love Aruba, It Loves You Back.
Responsible tourism is no longer a trend - it’s a global imperative. For Aruba, where vibrant cultu…

Nominees

AllGear Digital and AllTrails: 2025 Accessibility Campaign for the Colorado Tourism Office
The Colorado Tourism Office aimed to elevate Colorado as a national leader in accessible outdoor ad…
Cruising, Reimagined: How Princess Cruises Elevated Travel Storytelling on Social
Ultimately, we aimed to ensure that when travelers began dreaming about their next escape, Princess…
Discover Airlines FOOH campaign
If Discover Airlines is known for one thin than for being THE holiday airline. Our task was to crea…
Get To Going
Destination marketing is oversaturated with idealized, surface-level portrayals of people and place…
Going for Gold with Sports City USA ™
Frisco, Texas, rapidly transformed from a small North Texas town into a global hub for professional…
Great Places to Live
Great Places to Live was designed as a virtual road trip across America, bringing to life communiti…
Nat Geo x Bermuda Tourism Authority
Bermuda is commonly misidentified as part of the Caribbean—thanks in part to a well-known line from…
Nat Geo x Travel Texas
As the largest state in the lower 48, how do you encapsulate all that Texas has to offer? In 2025, …
Sight & Sound Sessions
For Türkiye’s national tourism platform, Go Türkiye (TGA), we developed a global initiative to draw…
Vacation Flex
The airline industry in Canada has become increasingly competitive, with new “low-cost” airlines ca…
W Hotels x W New York - Union Square Premiere
The relaunch of W New York - Union Square was designed to operate as a cultural reintroduction and …
W Hotels x W Punta Cana Premiere
W Punta Cana marked a major milestone for the brand: the debut of W Hotels’ first-ever luxury all-i…