2025 entry fees & discounts
What are the entry fees and how much does it cost to enter TPOTY 2025 and why should you enter?
Entering TPOTY can change your life if you are one of the winners (1st to 4th in any category). TPOTY’s media coverage is huge and international. Rather than thinking of it as a competition, you should think of it as a way of marketing your photography to a huge audience for a small amount of money.
Which Entries are FREE?
- The overall winner – Travel Photographer of the Year. There is no charge to be entered for the top prize! If you enter two or more portfolios (4 images) you will automatically be entered for this prize with no extra fee. You simply pay to enter your portfolios and we do the rest.
- The NEW Travel Image of the Year award. If you are a winner of any of the One Shot categories or the Best Single Image in a Portfolio, you will automatically be entered for this prize with no extra fee. You simply pay for your initial entry and we do the rest.
- Young Travel Photographer of the Year is completely FREE to enter and the entry fees for all the categories as listed below, along with the discounts for multiple entries.
Why do we charge entry fees? See bottom of this page.
NEW THIS YEAR – The TPOTY Pass…
ENTERING LOTS OF IMAGES? Use the early bird TPOTY Pass for unlimited entries until 31st July 2025
Would you like to enter lots of categories but are concerned about the cost? We have a solution for you. Enter by 31st July 2025 and you can get an unlimited entry TPOTY pass. This allows you to enter any category which you’re eligible for, and enter as many times as you like, for a one-off fee of £95. But this early bird offer is only up to 31st July.
Single Entries
- FREE – Young Travel Photographer of the Year
- One Shot – £12 per entry – (Green Planet; Slow Travel; Travel in Monochrome; Travel Portraits)
- Four-image portfolios £25 per entry – (Adventures & Experiences; Culture, Heritage & Beliefs; Landscape, Weather & Climate; Wildlife, Sealife, Birdlife)
- Rising Talent award – £25 – limited to only one entry
- Video – Shooting Travel (1 min) – £15
- Video – Our World (2 mins) – £25
SAVE WITH MULTIPLE ENTRIES – Entering more than one single image or portfolio? Save by using the multiple entry bundles.
- 2 x Four-image portfolios £35 when entered at the same time
- ‘Four Plus Two’ 12-image combination of 4 One Shot entries and 2 four-image portfolios entered at the same time for £55 (full price would be £83 if entered individually).
- ‘Ten Image Combination’ of between six and 10 ‘One Shot’ images for £55 (full price would be up to £120 if entered individually).
- Travel Photographer of the Year is FREE and automatic with entry of two or more portfolio entries
- Travel Image of the Year is FREE after entry of One Shot & a portfolio, for eligible images
Eligibility for the top award of Travel Photographer of the Year 2025 is FREE and automatic for any entrant (aged 19 and above) who submits 2 portfolios (8 or more images) in any combination of portfolio categories.
Payment of entry fees: Entry fees must be paid in pounds sterling (£) only. Image submissions will be paid for during the online entry process. Entry fees will only be refunded where an entrant has made a purchase in error. This request must be made within two weeks of making the entry purchase or the fees cannot be refunded.
Why is there an entry fee?
TPOTY is an independent and largely self-funded award. The income from entries fees are vital in helping to fund the running of the competition, the prizes, the website and server, our exhibitions and our activities to promote, publicise and showcase the winners and entrants.
Travel Photographer of the Year is your showcase for the best in contemporary travel photography and these images have inspired, and continue to inspire, people to discover and photograph the many and diverse cultures and places, the landscapes and the wildlife of this amazing planet.
Our sponsors and partners
It would not be possible to run Travel Photographer of the Year without the support of our sponsors and partners, and we are hugely grateful for their involvement each year. Click the logo to learn more about each of Travel Photographer of the Year’s sponsor and partners.
