CIMTIG launched a competition to find the most successful travel related TV advert from 2010,  following a recent article in Marketing; ‘Irritating ads 2010: Memorable for the wrong reason’ which crowned Gocompare as the most irritating ad for the second year.  Interestingly no travel companies were named and with that in mind CIMTIG launched a poll to see which holiday TV advert from 2010 was the most popular. 3000 votes were submitted and Thomas Cook won the coveted number one slot with 35% of the vote featuring Jamie and Louise Rednapp closely followed by James Villa Holidays ‘Happy Feet’, and Hoseasons in third place.

Results from the poll:
Thomas Cook - featuring Jamie & Louise Redknapp - (35%)
James Villa Holidays - ‘Happy Feet’ - (22%)
Hoseasons - (14%)
Thomson - ‘Your Holiday to a T’ - (12%)
Butlins - ‘Dust in the Wind’ featuring Ludo the Dino - (9%)
Virgin Atlantic - ‘Got it’ - (3%)
Haven - ‘What I did on my holiday’ - (3%)
Saga Holidays - ‘We’ve got people talking’ - (2%)
Royal Caribbean - (1%)
Travelsupermarket - featuring Jedward - (1%)
P&O Cruises - Explorers - (0%)
Canadian Affair - (0%)

CIMTIG, the travel industry group of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the world’s largest marketing organisation with some 50,000 members promotes marketing excellence within travel and provides networking, career and study opportunities to marketing professional in this exciting and vibrant industry.