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CORINTHIA HOTELS IN
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY AND BANJUL, THE GAMBIA
NAMED "LEADING HOTELS" AT
ANNUAL WORLD TRAVEL AWARDS
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Other Corinthia Hotels in Malta, Russia and Tunisia
also receive nominations -
14th Annual World
Travel Awards 2007
(15th October 2007)
&endash; Malta based Corinthia Hotels International
announced that two of its hotels, namely the
five-star Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest,
Hungary and the Corinthia Atlantic Hotel in Banjul,
The Gambia, have won the prestigious 'Hungary's
Leading Hotel' and 'The Gambia's leading hotel'
awards respectively in the international 14th
Annual World Travel Awards 2007. The ceremony took
place on the 9th October at The Sage, in Newcastle
Gateshead, England.
Accepting the
Award, Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal General Manager
Adrian Ellis said "Together with my colleague,
General Manager Sylvain Chauvet from the Corinthia
Atlantic Hotel in The Gambia, we are proud and
honoured to be receiving this prestigious award,
which we dedicate entirely to our employees, whose
tireless efforts and dedication to duties made all
this possible. Our hotels now proudly join an elite
international band of hotels that have been
similarly recognised for their outstanding
qualities"
Apart from the two
winning hotels, three other Corinthia Hotels were
also nominated among the finalists for the awards.
These were the Corinthia Palace Hotel & Spa in
Malta, the Corinthia Khamsa Hotel in Tunisia and
the Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel in St
Petersburg, Russia, who were all nominated for the
Leading Business Hotel award in their respective
countries. The Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel was
further nominated in the Best Conference Hotel and
Best Suite Hotel categories for Russia.
 Hailed
by the Wall Street Journal, as 'The Oscars of the
Travel Industry', the World Travel Awards are the
most comprehensive and most prestigious awards
programme in the global travel industry today.
Attended by the captains of industry, the World
Travel Awards ceremonies are highly regarded as the
event and forum that serves to acknowledge, reward
and celebrate the enormous achievements found in
all sectors of the global travel
industry.
The Corinthia Grand
Hotel Royal is a complete renovation of the 19th
century Hotel Royal building, which first opened
for Budapest's Millennium exhibition in 1896, and
which has now been restored to its original
splendour. The hotel's façade, as well as
the main ballroom, are original, while traditional
architecture was blended with modern style to
create a unique harmony in other parts of the
building. The hotel has 414 luxurious rooms and the
largest state-of-the-art conference and exhibition
centre in any five-star hotel in
Hungary.
the Corinthia
Atlantic Hotel is set in extensive gardens on The
Gambia's spectacular 50km-long unspoiled coastline
and only a 10-minute walk away from the centre of
the Country's capital Banjul. It is one of the
longest established and best renowned hotels in The
Gambia. The hotel is ideally located only 20
minutes away from the International airport and
provides wonderful opportunities for both a
relaxing and a more adventurous holiday. The
hotel's 204 rooms offer superb comfort and
panoramic views of the great River Gambia and the
surrounding tropical gardens. An amazing array of
facilities in the hotel combines to offer an exotic
holiday experience of a lifetime.
About Corinthia Hotels
International (CHI)
CHI is a hotel
operating company that is a joint venture between
Malta based International Hotel Investments plc
(IHI) and Wyndham Hotel Group (WHG). It undertakes
hotel management operations for Corinthia Group and
IHI owned or affiliated hotels as also for third
party owners. CHI is also the exclusive hotel
management company for WHG managed hotels in the
EMEA region operating under the Corinthia, Ramada
Plaza and Wyndham categories. CHI has over 40 years
experience in delivering a high-quality service to
hotel guests and an optimum rate of return for
owners and investors. Its expertise extends to
management of luxury and upscale properties in city
and resort locations, ranging from boutique to
large conference and meeting hotels. Corinthia this
year features among the top 50 hotel operating
groups in Europe, as reviewed by Hotel Management
International, an official publication of the
European Hotel Managers Association.
About World Travel
Awards
The World Travel
Awards were established in 1993 to acknowledge,
reward and celebrate the enormous achievements in
all sectors of the global travel industry. In the
years since, new technology has ensured that travel
has maintained its position as one of the
fastest-growing industries on Earth. Candidates for
nomination are based upon the previous year's
voting. This is the world's most comprehensive
travel awards ceremony, with trophies awarded in
all areas of the industry. Voting is cast by travel
agents in over 190 countries around the world.
Regional categories are broken down from the Whole
World category into eight smaller areas - Africa,
Asia/Pacific, Caribbean, Central & Latin
America, Europe, Middle East, North America and
South America. These are then further divided into
all areas of the travel industry. Hundreds and
thousands of votes each year are registered online
at the official World Travel Awards website, with
most of the leading travel internet sites offering
additional online voting facilities.
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