Winners picked up their trophies among 350 leading luxury travel industry figures in attendance, marking the largest ever outing for the event, with guests also enjoying a unique musical set from Brixton Chamber Orchestra, and helping to raise funds for charity Shelter.

TTG Luxury editor and publisher April Hutchinson said: “It gives me enormous pride to have awarded so many worthy recipients, who proved how they continually go above and beyond in our vibrant luxury travel sector. The TTG Luxury Travel Awards are not easy to win: we require a lot of detail from entrants to demonstrate how they strive to be a Smarter, Better, Fairer travel business, in line with TTG Media’s own core purpose. From global hotel brands to individual travel designers, the awards shine a light on what good looks like and we also place emphasis on recognizing those who make a positive contribution in the area of sustainability and community engagement. We’re thrilled to have hosted so many people from across our thriving luxury travel sector in such a fitting venue and send hearty congratulations to all winners.”

Among the categories awarded were eight for travel agencies, eight for industry suppliers and two special categories – Luxury Travel Workplace of the Year and Sustainability Hero of the Year, which have become hotly-contested categories.

The event was held in the hotel’s incredible Whitehall Ballroom and The Lawrence events spaces, created within the walls of the original Old War Office, which was built in 1906 and was the former site of the original Palace of Whitehall.

This location even inspired Ian Fleming to write the James Bond series after working for Britain’s Naval Intelligence Service there, and the hotel features The Spy Bar, a late-night subterranean speakeasy in rooms once used by MI5.