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Winners first edition Dutch Travel Blog Awards announced 

Yesterday, the winners of the very first edition of the Dutch Travel Blog Awards were announced. This event, organised by specialist travel marketing agency Thx.agency, provides the stage for the best travel content creators in the Netherlands. The award ceremony took place at the Corendon Village Hotel in Badhoevedorp and was made possible thanks to host partners Corendon and Visit Haarlemmermeer. With 250 blog stories, social posts, travel videos and photos submitted, it can be called a very successful first edition. A professional jury, consisting of Audrey Denkelaar (Corendon), Tamara Ernst (VisitBrabant), Isabel Mosk (Sherpa's Stories) and Hanita van der Meer (ANVR) determined the nominations from all entries and ultimately also chose the winners for 11 of the 12 award categories. Reishonger and MTB Challenge were the big gobblers at this first edition, winning two awards each. For the Audience Choice Awardthe general public was allowed to vote for its favourite, this audience award went to the adventure travel blog Reisplaatje. The full list of winners in all categories can be found below. 

Best Adventure Story - sponsored by ACSI

The Lone Drifters with On the border of Sweden and Norway: Our 7-day paddling adventure with The Canoe Trip 

Best Citytrip Story - sponsored by Visit Valencia

Travel genius with What to do in Bilbao: 25 tips and places to visit

Best Culinary/Cultural Travel Story - sponsored by VisitBrabant

Travel legend with A visit to the village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Best Family Travel Story - sponsored by Visit Haarlemmermeer 

Travel hunger with Holidays in southern Sweden with children 

Best Lifestyle Travel Story - sponsored by By June

The Salty Beachbums with Gili Asahan: one of Lombok's secret gili islands

Best Roadtrip Story - sponsored by Sunny Cars

Little Wanderbook with Mallorca road trip tips & highlights

Best Sustainable Travel Story - sponsored by the Tourist Board of Spain

Travel hunger with Unwind in the Zeeland clay 

Image of the Year - sponsored by Visit Mechelen

MTB Challenge 

Social Post of the Year - sponsored by Thx.agency 

Travellust with Route through Scotland 

Social Video of the Year - sponsored by the Curaçao Tourist Board

Salt in our Hair with 10-Day Madeira Itinerary 

Video of the Year - sponsored by the Zaan region

MTB Challenge with Do What Makes You Smile 

Audience Choice Award - sponsored by Corendon

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Jo Thuys, Managing Partner of the organising travel marketing agency Thx.agency, looks back with satisfaction: "As organisers, we look back on a very successful event with more than 250 entries, which is a very nice result for a first edition. In Belgium we have been organising this event for more than six years and we notice that the enthusiasm and quality is still increasing every year. After this first edition in the Netherlands, we can safely say that a lot of top content is being created here as well. We therefore hope that in the coming years we can continue to offer the stage to both established values and starting content creators in the Netherlands and that the event continues to grow every year, as we have seen in Belgium."