Travel Rants Voted Best UK Travel Consumer Blog in Travolution Awards

The Travolution Awards reward the best in online travel; a panel of travel experts judged entrants within a number of travel categories including best travel agency and best airline. BBC Sports Presenter Claire Balding presented the awards at the Royal Garden Hotel, London on the 24 April 2008.

(PRWEB) April 28, 2008 -- The Travolution Awards reward the best in online travel and Independent travel consumer blog, Travel Rants has been voted Best UK travel consumer blog, beating off the likes of Travel Mail, part of the Associated Newspaper group, at the awards held at the Royal Garden Hotel, London on the 24 April.

The panel of travel experts judged entrants, saying that: "Darren Cronian has single-handedly set the benchmark to which other consumer-focussed blogs should aspire. Controversial, relevant, thorough and, perhaps most tellingly, much better than something mainstream media organisations are trying to achieve."

Travel Rants is an independent travel blog dealing in travel consumer issues, and is written by Darren Cronian, as a hobby, in his spare time, and covers controversial topics such as airline passenger obesity, and consumer holiday complaints.

Darren Cronian, editor of the Travel Rants blog, said, "I am delighted to have won such a prestigious award and also beat off tough competition -- it proves that anything can be achieved with hard work. It's great that an independent blogger can take on the big names in the travel industry and come out as top.

"I am passionate about travel, and it is important that travel consumers have a channel to voice their opinions publically and the Travel Rants blog allows that as they can leave comments and ask questions about the important topics discussed"

For more information visit http://www.travel-rants.com

About Travel Rants

Travel Rants was launched by Leeds-based Darren Cronian in April 2005, after a bad experience at a high-street travel agency. The blog features a wide range of travel issues and is an independent voice for consumers. In 2007, the Guardian mentioned Travel Rants as an essential travel site along with Trip Advisor and Lonely Planet.

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