Nomadmania Travel Awards 2022
The Travel Awards
With The Biggest Travellers
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What the NomadMania Awards are about
The NomadMania Travel Awards are meant to celebrate travelling efforts for the past year. Our aim is not to make people travel for the award, but rather to award the ones who travel regardless of that and to inspire new generations of travellers!
This year we expanded and we are giving out 12 awards in 3 main categories:
- Golden awards – will be selected internally by the NomadMania Team and their aim is to thank our friends, supporters and partners;
- Silver awards – will be selected by our community, through initial proposals by the public. Everyone is eligible, regardless of whether they are NomadMania members or not. Our committee will then choose 5 nominations per award category and they will be eligible for votes exclusively by NomadMania Members.
- Special award – lifetime travel award is voted and awarded by our committee.
To be eligible for voting in the final round, voters must have registered with NomadMania until one month prior to the event and must have 35 or more NomadMania regions marked as visited on that date.
See the NomadMania Awards schedule
15:30 GMT
EVENT 2. Women Travellers + AWARD: Most Positive Traveller + HOST: Sarah
EVENT 3. Travel Authors + AWARD: Against All Odds Traveller + HOST: Francisco
EVENT 4. The NomadMania Team + AWARD: Best NM Team Member + HOST: Harry (founder of NM)
EVENT 5. Politics and Travel + AWARD: Most Purposeful Traveller + HOST: Sarah
EVENT 6. Intrepid Adventurers + AWARD: Best LPI (Low Passport Index) Traveller + HOST: Sam
EVENT 7. Fixers + AWARD: Best Fixer + HOST: Francisco
EVENT 8. NM Scholarship Recipients (from Ukraine) + AWARD: Most Intrepid Traveller + HOST: Orest
EVENT 9. Special Guest + AWARD: Lifetime Achievement + HOST: Sarah
EVENT 10. Digital Nomads + AWARD: Biggest Digital Nomad + HOST: Francisco
EVENT 11. National Travel Clubs + AWARD: Best NM Friend (Organisation) + HOST: Sam
EVENT 12. Biggest Travellers + AWARD: The Biggest Traveller 2022 + HOST: All
NomadMania Awards categories
Golden Awards
Biggest NomadMania Friend 2022 (Individual)
Awarded to a NomadMania member (a non-team member) whose contributions to NomadMania – in any form – have really made a difference to our platform.
Biggest NomadMania Friend 2022 (Organisation)
Awarded to an organisation of any kind whose contributions to NomadMania – in any form – have really made a difference to our platform.
Best NomadMania Team Member 2022
Awarded to a NomadMania Team member who has made outstanding contributions to the platform in the past year.
“Against All Odds” Traveller 2022
Awarded to a NomadMania member who, despite having considerable obstacles, has overcome them to become a notable traveller.
Most Trusted Local Fixer 2022
Awarded to a fixer on NomadMania who gave an admirable contribution to the travelling community and gained trust of travellers. This category will transition to voting (Silver) section next year.
Silver Awards
Most Intrepid Traveller 2022
Awarded to any traveller – NomadMania member or not – whose travels in the last year have required considerable courage, risk-taking and craziness!
Most Positive Traveller 2022
Awarded to any traveller – NomadMania member or not – whose positivity while travelling in the past year renders them a role-model of behaviour In the travel community.
Purposeful Traveller 2022
Awarded to any traveller – NomadMania member or not – whose efforts to create community, help local communities and in general travel with a purpose in the past year render them much more than just a traveller.
Biggest Digital Nomad 2022
Awarded to any traveller – NomadMania member or not – whose overall contributions in the past year through digital platforms (their own blog, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or other) make them a supreme online travel leader.
Biggest Traveller 2022
Awarded to any traveller – NomadMania member or not – whose travels in the past year, in terms of both quantity (days on the road and number of trips) AND quality (difficulty and variety of destinations), render them a truly big traveller even by the standards of the NomadMania Community.
BIGGEST LPI (Low Passport Index) TRAVELLER 2022
Awarded to any traveller – NomadMania member or not – who doesn’t let the bureaucracy and passport/nationality issues stop them in travelling. To be eligible for this, travellers have to be from one of the countries that rank the lowest on Henley Passport Index Ranking. Full list is available on the nominations page.
Special Awards
NomadMania Lifetime Travel Achievement 2021
This award is given to any traveller – NomadMania member or not – whose lifetime travel achievements are of an outstanding level.
The Awards Committee
The first step in nominating travellers for NomadMania Travel Awards 2022 was the nominations done online by our community between August 21st until September 21st. Members of NomadMania were free to nominate anyone they wanted in six different categories, regardless whether the nominee was our member or not.
After that we needed to make some order and to decide which of all proposed nominees were the best for this year’s Awards. We formed our Committee to help us do that job and the work started. This year we wanted to have more members and less involvement in the decision making process by our team, as our aim is to make this truly community based Awards.
The selection started by reviewing the lists and our founder placing his vetoes. This is the only involvement by him in the whole process.
Committee had worked hard in the previous weeks under guidance of our manager Milana. She did not have an active role in the voting process either, except in three cases. We had situations where either a member of our Committee or a member of their family was nominated and in such cases Milana replaced that Committee member with her votes.
Basic rules that our Committee was instructed with:
- Nominees must be nominated for their performance last year only, not their whole life.
- Biggest Travellers must be nominated based on independent travelling efforts alone.
- Last year’s winners cannot be nominated in any category this year.
- We will end up nominating only travellers that can be reached and that accept the nomination of NomadMania’s community.
So without further ado, we present to you the NomadMania Travel Awards 2022 Committee which worked to bring you the final nominees in 6 different categories.
Bengt Hildebrand
Yui Pow Redford
Ric Gazarian
Jack Goldstein
Billy Offland
Eugenio Bregolat
Gianni Bianchini
Laerke Helene Ehlers Mikkelsen
Erik Futtrup
Aurélien de Saint Blancard
Milana Bojinović
Meet the hosts
Francisco Ortiz
Sam Hawthorne
Sarah McArthur
Meet the team
Harry Mitsidis
Thomas Büchler
Wojciech Fedoruk
Orest Zub
Milana Bojinović
Daniel Zagrodzki
