The official rules of The Passport Awards 2027 and the Stamped 100. Last updated 17 October 2026.
These are the official rules of The Passport Awards 2027 and the Stamped 100 2027. By nominating, voting, suggesting a creator or taking part in any other way, you agree to them. Questions: hello@thepassportawards.com.
1.1 The Passport Awards is promoted and run by Lemon Group International Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 05807099, whose registered office is at 167–169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W 5PF ("we", "us"). Contact: hello@thepassportawards.com.
1.2 The awards are free to enter, free to vote in and free to watch. No purchase or payment is ever needed.
2.1 All times are UK time.
2.2 Nominations and round one voting: 09:00 on Sunday 1 November 2026 to 23:59 on Sunday 14 February 2027.
2.3 Panel shortlisting: 15 to 21 February 2027.
2.4 Finalists announced and finals voting: 09:00 on Monday 22 February 2027 to 23:59 on Sunday 7 March 2027.
2.5 Winners announced on Monday 15 March 2027. The Stamped 100 is published the same night.
2.6 The qualifying period for work considered by the panel is 15 February 2026 to 14 February 2027 (the "qualifying year").
2.7 Nominations and votes outside these windows are not accepted. If a date changes, we publish the new date on this site (rule 15).
3.1 There are 20 awards: 17 entered awards (Best TikTok Creator, Best Instagram Creator, Best YouTuber, Best Airline Reviewer, Best Hotel Reviewer, Best Cruise Creator, Best Luxury Traveller, Best Budget Traveller, Best Family Travellers, Best Solo Traveller, Best Travel Couple, Best Adventurer, Best Food Creator, Best Sustainable Traveller, Best Travel Photographer, Best Newcomer and Best Brand Partnership), plus The People's Passport, The Icon Award and The Gold Passport.
3.2 The People's Passport, The Icon Award and The Gold Passport cannot be entered directly.
3.3 The published criteria for each award are on the categories page.
4.1 Nominees must be 18 or over, create travel content, and have published work during the qualifying year. They can be based anywhere in the world and work on any platform. There is no follower minimum.
4.2 A creator may be nominated in up to three entered awards. Couples, families and small teams may enter as one nominee under one name.
4.3 Channels owned by a brand or publisher may be nominated only where the creator or creative team behind them is named, and Best Brand Partnership is for a named creator and brand campaign. The panel decides eligibility in borderline cases.
4.4 The following cannot be nominees: members of the judging panel; directors and employees of Lemon Group International Limited and of anyone contracted to run the awards; and their immediate families and households. Employees of sponsors may be nominees, but their sponsor has no say in any result (rule 13).
4.5 Nominators and voters must be 16 or over and may live anywhere. Each person must use their own email address.
5.1 Anyone can nominate a creator, including themselves, using the form on this site while nominations are open. Third party nominations carry the same weight as self nominations.
5.2 Every nomination must be confirmed by clicking the link we email to the nominator. Nothing is published until then. A link expires after 7 days, and unconfirmed nominations are ignored.
5.3 Nominators confirm that what they submit is accurate, that they have the right to submit any photo and text, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights or break the law.
5.4 Creators may also be longlisted by our panel or nominated by the public using publicly available information. Any creator can ask for their page to be edited or removed at any time by emailing hello@thepassportawards.com, and we will do so within two working days.
5.5 We screen every nomination for eligibility and brand suitability, and may edit, decline or remove any nomination, photo or text that is inaccurate, offensive, defamatory, infringes rights, or would bring the awards into disrepute.
6.1 Round one (1 November 2026 to 14 February 2027): anyone can nominate and the public votes on every live nominee. The panel screens every eligible nominee and picks about five finalists per entered award. Round one votes count for 30% of that shortlisting score and the panel's assessment of impact for 70%.
6.2 Finals (22 February to 7 March 2027): one verified vote per email per award. Each finalist's final score is 60% panel and 40% finals public vote. The highest final score wins.
6.3 The People's Passport is decided 100% by the verified public vote across every finalist.
6.4 The Gold Passport (Travel Creator of the Year) and The Icon Award are chosen by the full panel alone, from across all nominees and the wider industry.
6.5 The panel scores against the published criteria and the five weighted axes on the categories page, which favour impact on travel decisions, storytelling, engagement, originality and growth over follower count.
7.1 The panel is chaired by Paul Sagoo, founder of The Passport Awards. The full panel is announced on 1 December 2026.
7.2 Judges score independently and blind to each other's scores. Every judge declares any conflict of interest and does not score an award where one exists. The chair holds a casting vote for ties.
7.3 Subject to rule 9, the panel's decisions are final.
8.1 Each email address has one vote per award in round one and one vote per award in the finals. A vote counts only once the voter has confirmed their email address by clicking the link we send. Each voter confirms once; later votes from the same confirmed address count straight away.
8.2 Throwaway email domains are rejected. Addresses that reach the same inbox (for example with dots or a "+tag" in Gmail) count as one voter. A limit of 60 votes per connection per hour applies.
8.3 Round one vote counts are not published. Finals counts may be shown on the site while voting is open.
8.4 Votes generated by automation, bots, scripts, vote exchanges, payment or incentives, or cast with addresses that are not the voter's own, are void. We audit every vote before results are declared and remove any we believe are not genuine.
8.5 A nominee who arranges, buys or encourages invalid votes may be disqualified. Asking your audience to vote is encouraged; paying or rewarding people to vote is not allowed.
9.1 We may disqualify a nominee, finalist or winner, or void votes, if they are ineligible, give false information, breach these rules, are involved in vote manipulation, or behave in a way that brings the awards into serious disrepute. If a winner is disqualified, the award may go to the next highest finalist or be left unawarded.
9.2 A nominee may appeal a disqualification by emailing hello@thepassportawards.com within 7 days of being told. The appeal is reviewed by the chair and a panel member not involved in the original decision, and their decision is final.
10.1 Winners are announced on Monday 15 March 2027 and published on this site the same night.
10.2 We may contact winners in confidence before the announcement, by email or by a direct message from our verified accounts, to arrange their winner announcement and the trophy. They must keep the result confidential until it is revealed. We never ask winners for money or bank details.
10.3 Winners must reply within 28 days of the announcement with a delivery address for the trophy. If a winner cannot be reached in that time, the title stands but we may not be able to send the trophy.
11.1 Every winner, of every award, receives The Gold Passport trophy, posted to them at our cost. Winners also receive a winner's badge and the digital assets of their winner announcement for their own channels.
11.2 There is no cash alternative and the prize cannot be transferred or exchanged. If the trophy becomes unavailable for reasons outside our control, we may substitute one of equal or greater value.
11.3 Any import duties or local taxes charged on delivery are the winner's responsibility.
11.4 There is no in person ceremony for the 2027 awards. If a live ceremony is held in a later year, any invitation to the Class of 2027 is a courtesy, not part of the prize.
11.5 Your Passport stamps, the recruiter board and the Stamped 100 carry no prize unless a separate promotion with its own published terms is announced.
12.1 You keep the copyright in anything you submit. By submitting a photo, bio, reasons for nominating or other material, you give us a non exclusive, worldwide, royalty free licence to use, reproduce, crop and publish it to run and promote the 2027 awards, on this site, in share cards, on social media, in the winners announcement and in press material, and to keep it as part of the record of the 2027 edition.
12.2 You confirm you have the right to grant that licence. If you are not the creator, you confirm the creator or the rights holder would agree. We remove material on a valid request from the rights holder.
12.3 The Passport Awards name, logos, the Gold Passport design, share cards and badges are ours. Nominees, finalists and winners may use their badges and cards to promote their own nomination or win.
13.1 Sponsors and partners have no say in any result. They do not vote, do not sit on the panel, do not see votes or scores before results are declared, and cannot pay to place a creator on a list or in a shortlist.
13.2 A partner's name on an award means they support it, not that they chose its winner.
14.1 The Stamped 100 ranks the 100 most influential travel creators. Each creator's score is 50% data, 30% panel and 20% public votes.
14.2 The data score uses public figures for followers, engagement and growth. The panel score is the panel's assessment of influence over travel decisions and storytelling. The public score uses votes up minus votes down from confirmed email addresses only.
14.3 Each email address has one vote per creator, which can be changed once every 7 days. The rules on vote integrity in rule 8 apply.
14.4 The pool comes from nominations, public suggestions and the panel's longlist. Suggestions are a signal to the panel, never a guarantee of a place.
14.5 The live board is provisional and moves as data, panel scores and votes come in. The final list is published on 15 March 2027 with the winners.
14.6 Any creator can ask to be removed from the board and we act within two working days.
15.1 We may change dates, the programme, presenters or the format of the winners announcement, and we may suspend, extend or cancel any part of the awards if circumstances outside our reasonable control make it necessary, or if the integrity of the vote is at risk. Any change is published on this site.
15.2 We may update these rules to correct errors or to reflect such a change. We will not change how winners are decided for an award once its finals vote has opened, except to keep the result fair.
16.1 We are not responsible for nominations, votes or emails lost, delayed or not delivered because of technical failures, spam filters or anything else outside our reasonable control.
16.2 To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from taking part in the awards. Nothing in these rules limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law, and nothing affects your statutory rights.
17.1 We use personal data as described in our privacy notice and cookies page.
18.1 These rules are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live elsewhere in the UK, you may also bring proceedings in your home courts.