Red Herring today announced that TVtrip was named a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.

“This year’s impressive list of submissions from companies demonstrates Europe’s growing role as a major center of innovation in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology startups and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”

Red Herring’s lists of top private companies are an important part of the publication’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google, eBay, and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors, and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.

So TVtrip is indeed in good company. So, in addition to our victory at the TravelMole awards in Asia, it just goes to show that the buzz around TVtrip is growing all over the world!

Some great news for TVtrip: today we received our first award, winners of “Best Web 2.0 Mash up site” at the TravelMole Web Awards for Asia. TVtrip has an office in Singapore headed by our VP Asia, David Chambat. The award was presented at the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore in conjunction with the EyeforTravel Summit.

http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1127290.php

http://www.travelmole.com/webawards_asia2008.php

Dubbed the “Moscars”, these awards are handed to online companies that excel in the travel sector. The feat is even more impressive given that Tvtrip is based in Paris and Brussel far away from Asia and Australia!

Roving reporter Dan Meththananda managed to grab a few words with the charming and charismatic David Chambat, who was on hand to pick up the award. Based in Singapore, David is our VP of Asia and also our resident superstar.

DM: “How does it feel to have won this prestigious award?”

DC: “I’m over the moon. It’s awards like these that make you realize, even far from our home base in Paris, the excitement around TVtrip is growing… we will continue our commitment to building our partnerships with hotels all over the world. Also, it’ll be nice to bring something shiny for the mantel piece in Paris!”

TVTrip would like to thank our production teams, publicists, (hotel) partners, lovers, make-up artists but most of all our fans in making this award a reality.

To become part of the TvTrip story in Asia or become a partner hotel e-mail: dc@tvtrip.com (David also accepts fan mail at this address)

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the TVtrip game that had been running on the site until January this year as Filippo Rinaldi, Martine Segers and Malika Bejaoui. The winners chose holidays to Paris, Rome and Barcelona as their prizes- special congratulations to them.