Go Ape High Wire Forest Adventure, with a course in Thetford Forest and head office in Hargrave, near Bury St Edmunds, has been named winner of the Responsible Tourism category in the TravelMole 2009 Web Awards.

Go Ape High Wire Forest Adventure, with a course in Thetford Forest and head office in Hargrave, near Bury St Edmunds, has been named winner of the Responsible Tourism category in the TravelMole 2009 Web Awards.

TravelMole, a global online community for the travel and tourism industry, announced the winners and presented trophies at an awards ceremony attended by around 200 people from across the industry at Canada House in London.

Go Ape beat three other companies to the winning spot.

Marcus Falconer, Go Ape marketing manager, said: “We're really pleased to get recognition from the travel industry for the work that we do and the quality of our brilliant new website. The website is proving a big hit with our tribe of gorillas and baboons and has great new features such as Flickr and Youtube feeds, video footage, a course finder and the new Banana Blog.”

The annual awards are voted for by TravelMole subscribers and judged by an independent panel of travel and tourism experts.