There's a $40k prize up-for-grabs for people who vote for their favourite hotel, and the most-popular 300 hotels will be published in an Insight Guides travel guide. WAYN are a global partner for the awards which are taking place in three main territories, UK+IE, Oceania and Asia.

Matt Jerwood, of WAYN Business Development, said "This is a great example of a community website and home of travel-based user generated content, helping a more traditional business drive a more traditional form of UGC, i.e. books on travellers' favourite hotels. It's pretty exciting and complimentary to match-up the different approaches, it's social publishing almost".

The survey will culminate in awards that will recognise the best of the best in various categories, and WAYN themselves will even be giving out the WAYN Best Hotel Bar in the World Award.

HotelClub are a part of the Orbitz family, and have been given their own WAYN Profile to drive votes to the awards, this can be found at http://hotelclub.wayn.com.

More info to be made available in due course.