The Onboard Hospitality Awards 2024 are now open for entries. Entries close December 16 2024.
To be eligible for an awards, entries in all categories (except for Ones to Watch) must be in service on or before February 20 2025.
If you have a product that is not yet onboard but has potential to excel, it can be entered into Ones to Watch.
Not sure what to enter? Discover which category works best for your product below…
Food and Beverage
New for 2025: Best Special Meal or Product
To include meals or products designed for passengers with dietary needs (for example allergens)
Best Onboard Snack
To include nuts, crisps, popcorn, chocolates, sandwiches, pastries etc, served complimentary or as buy-on-board
Best Onboard Menu or Meal
To include full menus or a singular stand-out meal components, served complimentary or as buy-on-board in any cabin.
Best Onboard Beverage
To include beers, wines, spirits, cocktails, sodas, juices, coffees, teas and so on, served complimentary or as buy-on-board in any cabin. Split into alcoholic and nonalcoholic categories
Catering Innovation of the Year
To include new innovations and CSR programmes that show innovation in the catering sphere.
Comfort
Best Onboard Amenities Kit
An award for amenity kits and their contents for First, Business, Premium Economy and Economy cabins
Best for Wellbeing Onboard
Products designed to make travellers or crew feel good, to include products, services, uniforms offered complimentary or as buy-onboard in any cabin
Best for Onboard Textiles
To include bedding, blankets, sleepsuits, pillows, duvets and napkins, offered complimentary or as buy-on-board
Serviceware
Best Onboard Service Equipment: Passengers
Best for passengers, to include trays, tableware, cutlery, rotables, disposables etc. in any cabin
Best Onboard Service Equipment: Crew
Best for crew, to include trolleys, crew-friendly service equipment, crew rest or support items in any cabin
Multiple touchpoints
Best Onboard for Young Travellers
To include any element from the passenger experience for babies, children or teenagers, for example: amenities, services, and food products for babies, children and teenagers, offered complimentary or as buy-on-board in any cabin
Best for Accessibility Onboard
Products, developments and services designed to assist passengers with additional needs, for example, wheelchair accessibility, braille signposting, crew training and more
Best for Sustainability Onboard
To include eco, green, lightweight and recyclable products and wider CSR programmes.
Technology
Best Onboard Entertainment
To include entertainment content such as movies, television channels and content, music, live-streaming, destination content and more
Best Onboard Apps
To include applications, either built into IFE or for passengers to use on their personal entertainment devices, before, during and/or after the journey
Best Onboard Connectivity
To include hardware from satellite systems to antennas, distribution, performance and passenger access
Best for Onboard Technology – Hardware
To include passenger experience items such as headphones, seatback screens, charging ports, and so on
New to industry
Ones to Watch – not yet onboard
New products or services targeting the onboard hospitality sector in all classes for rail, ferry, cruise or air, not yet onboard. Products entered in this category must not be onboard before Friday 8 March 2024.
Cabin Concept of the Year
This award has three categories:
