NOMINATION GUIDLELINES
To make it fair, we have to be strict: make sure you follow the simple guidelines below before you nominate.

1. All hotels in the Middle East are eligible to nominate team members for the Hotelier Middle East Awards. The Awards are open to all star-ratings of hotels, from one-star to five-star and including hotel apartments.

2. Nominations must be made by a hotel representative on behalf of a member of staff of their hotel. Hotelier Middle East recommends that nominations be approved by the PR / marketing team and / or the general manager’s office before they are submitted.

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3. Hotels are allowed to nominate people in as many categories as they wish. Each nomination must be made separately though.

4. This is the Hotelier Middle East Awards 2014, and as a result, the independent judging panel is seeking to reward the best performers in 2014, so please ensure that each nomination includes relevant and up to date information on achievements over the past 12 months.

5. All nominations must be submitted online at www.hoteliermiddleeast.com/awards. Nominations submitted in any other format will be disregarded.

6. The online nomination submission form for 17 of the individual award categories is split into five sections:
• Who are you nominating — contact information for the nominee
• Why should this person win the award — reasons for why the nominee should win
• Testimonials — comments from colleagues and guests to back up your nomination.
• How can we get in touch with you — contact information for the nominator
• Photograph submission — please email a photo of the nominee to hotelierawards@itp.com

All five sections must be completed.

Please ensure you answer all six questions within Section 2 — Why should this person win the award — to provide the judges with enough information and enable fair comparisons. Please do not copy and paste the same text into each answer box – each of the five sections should have a different answer.

7. The deadline for nominations is August 31, 2014. Nominations received after this date will be disregarded.

9. When all the nominations have been received, the Hotelier Middle East team will compile firstly a shortlist of nominees (up to five per category), which will be presented to the independent panel of judges. The judges will then meet during September to discuss the shortlist and decide upon the winners. The judges’ decision is final.

10. The winners will be announced during a glamorous ceremony on October 29,2014 at JW Marriott Marquis, Dubai.

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