Stephan Bosman of travel portal Zoover was named as the Leading Online Entrepreneur of the Year in The Netherlands in the first LOEY Awards. Claire Boonstra of Layar and her team received the Starters Award at the LOEY Awards.

Zoover has become one of the largest recommendation & review travel sites in Europe, receiving one million visitors per day who write 1000 travel reviews each day. The company started in 2005 with a team of four and currently employs 60 people, it has a turnover of in excess of 2,5 million Euro and is active in 21 countries. Its software development is done in Romania. Competitors of Zoover are Tripadvisor and Holidaycheck.
Layar has received many prizes in the last couple of months, the latest being listed as Tech Pioneer in the World Economic Forum 2010 List.

The LOEY Awards have been set up to further entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, organized by entrepreneur and investor Heleen van Oord of DQ&A and Peak Capital, Hubert Deitmers of investment firm Deitmers & VandenEnde and GertJan Munneke, founder of Traffci4U.