Belize Nominated as ‘Most Desirable Country’ in 2024 Wanderlust Awards

The 2024 Wanderlust Travel Awards are just around the corner and this year, Belize is nominated in the ‘Most Desirable Country’ category. The awards allow travelers to vote for their favourite destinations and promote them to potential visitors. The Belize Tourism Board is encouraging Belizeans to visit WanderlustMagazine’s Website and vote before it closes on October eighteenth. We spoke with B.T.B. marketing manager, Gale Malik-Ozaeta, for more details on the award.

 

Gale Malik-Ozaeta, Marketing Manager, B.T.B.

“The Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards is the UK’s longest running and largest travel magazine by circulation. And we normally do campaigns with different publications around the world. And so it means a lot for us to be nominated. First of all they exist to inform and inspire travelers globally to take the road less travelled. And Belize first being known as the mother nature’s best kept secret, there are still a lot of paths less traveled in Belize. And so this year, they’re celebrating their twenty-three years and we have been nominated for the category most desirable country to the rest of the world. Voting is open right now, and it closes October eighteenth, 2024. Now, this is not the first time we’ve been nominated for a Wanderlust Reader Travel Award. We have actually won in the past. In 2023, we won silver for best emerging destination, and in 2022, we won silver for most desirable emerging destination. So we are encouraging everybody to go out and vote. We are pushing it on our social channels and through all our partners to vote for Belize so that this year we may be able to walk away with the gold. UK is one of our emerging markets. It’s, we do have visitors that travel to Belize from the UK, but not as much as the other destinations. When we compare our visitor numbers to the U. S. and to Canada, it’s a lot. Far less for UK and Europe on a whole. And so, the publicity or that this opportunity brings to the destination, it’s very welcoming because there are, Wanderlust has a lot of readers, a lot of readers who may have never heard of them, about Belize, readers who are thinking about Belize, but don’t know exactly where to go or what to do.”