The second edition of the Ghana Event Awards (GEA) opens its nominations on, Wednesday, July 3, 2018.

According to the Chief Executive Officer of Event Guide Ghana, Kelvin Kenneth, the award scheme is open to everyone to nominate an event which they prefer saying “the events filed for nominations should fall within the scheme’s calendar, which starts from January 1 to December 31, 2017.”

He added that event organisers and other stakeholders who want to file for nominations should apply via the company’s website www.Ghanaeventsawards.com and all their social media platforms.

The Ghana Event Awards is a scheme set to raise the standards for better event organization, promote healthy competition in the industry and essentially achieve the heights of more illustrious award schemes in the country.

The award scheme, which seeks to acknowledge and reward event organizing outfits in Ghana, has fifteen (15) categories for this year;

1. Best Emerging Event
2. Best Event Setup
3. Best Event Photography
4. Best Event Mc Female
5. Best Event Mc Male
6. Best Event Sponsor
7. Best Event Company
8. Best Regional Event
9. Ghana’s Favourite Event
10. Event of the Year
11. Best Corporate Event
12. Event DJ of the Year
13. Event Blogger of the Year
14. Best International Event
15. Best CSR Event

The scheme will also award and recognise personalities who have made remarkable contributions to the Ghana Events Industry over a sustained period under the ‘Lifetime Achievement Awards’, whose winners are decided by the board.

The category dubbed ‘Ghana’s favourite event’ is fully decided by public votes while the rest of the categories are decided by both the board of the scheme and public votes.