Singapore – BBC World was voted The World’s Leading TV Channel for Travellers at the 14th World Travel Awards for the third consecutive year and was presented the award at a gala ceremony in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Dec 13. The World Travel Awards was conceived in 1993 to ‘acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world’s travel and tourism industry’. The awards were voted for by travel and tourism professionals from 167,000 travel agencies, tour and transport companies, as well as tourism organizations in more than 160 countries across the globe. BBC World’s reach within the travel sector has grown year-on-year and currently attracts 76 million viewers weekly. It is available in more than 200 territories worldwide, and reaches 270 million households and more than 1.5 million hotel rooms.