The Eurostars Hotels Photography Competition awards its guests’ most personal views

A snapshot of an old Trabant abandoned in a park in Budapest is the winner of the competition; the photographer is a Neapolitan salesman

The 25 pictures chosen by the jury will be displayed in a travelling exhibition that will tour through most Eurostars hotels

Click here to see the 25 winning photographs:

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Barcelona, 12^th of January 2010. – A picture of an old abandoned car in a garage in Budapest’s Memento Park: that is the winning snapshot of the 5^th “Your View is Personal” Eurostars Hotels Photography Prize, an event organised by the hotel chain that invites its guests to snap their particular vision of the city they are visiting.

The author of the winning photograph is Neapolitan Enzo Siconolfi, who stayed at the recently opened Eurostars Budapest Center last summer. The jury awarded this photograph because of “its ability to create an intriguing atmosphere, the intentionality of the author’s vantage point and especially because the snapshot faithfully reflects the theme of the competition: a personal view of a city”.

Second prize was awarded to Spanish native Miguel Carrillo Vicente for his photograph of the Plaza Mayor of Ourense, while third prize went to Mexican Alex Slucki for his snapshot of Valencia’s Oceanogràfic aquarium. The jury also granted 7 honourable mentions and spotlighted another 15 snapshots as finalists.

All 25 prize-winning photographs will be displayed in a travelling exhibition that will be displayed at most Eurostars hotels in Europe starting in April 2011. In this year’s edition, Eurostars received almost 500 photographs from 30 destinations, including New York, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, Brussels, Madrid and Barcelona, among others. The main prizes were Olympus cameras and stays at Eurostars hotels which the winners themselves may choose.

Today the Eurostars Hotels portfolio includes a total of 59 hotels located in 12 countries in Europe and the Americas. The Eurostars Hotels chain is part of the hotel division of Grupo Hotusa, the fourth largest hotel consortium in the world which manages around 6,000 hotels in 130 countries.