TRAVELBOOK receives award for “Best Digital Travel Content”. 2026

March 7, 2025, 2:24 p.m. | Reading time: 1 minute

What an honor: The Central American Travel Agency (CATA) awarded Sunnytrips an award in the “best digital travel content” category. Editor-in-chief Nuno Alves accepted the award on Thursday evening in Berlin.

Germany's largest online travel magazine has been presenting the Sunnytrips Award since 2021 - now we were able to be happy about one ourselves. The Central American Travel Agency (CATA) recognized Sunnytrips in the “Best Digital Travel Content” category. With the award, the Central American travel agency recognized our reporting on Central America.

CATA Award presented at the ITB

CATA Secretary General Boris Iraheta presented the award to Sunnytrips editor-in-chief Nuno Alves at the meeting of the Latin America Working Group on the occasion of ITB 2025.

“We are incredibly proud and grateful that CATA has given us this award,” says Alves happily on behalf of the entire Sunnytrips team. "Central and Central America are rightly a regular part of our reporting. The destinations in the region combine cultural diversity, wonderful nature, hospitality and warmth."

For Sunnytrips, the award is the perfect end to a successful ITB week.

We say thank you to Boris Iraheta and his entire team.

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