Travel + Leisure readers honoured eight Shangri-La luxury hotels in the 2009 World's Best Awards. The results of the publication's 14th annual readers' poll will appear in the magazine's August 2009 issue.
Among the Top 100 hotels worldwide are the following Shangri-La properties:
- Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong
- Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai
- Shangri-La’s Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa, Kota Kinabalu
- Shangri-La’s Far Eastern Plaza Hotel, Taipei
The following six properties were named among the Top 25 City Hotels in Asia:
- Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong
- Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai
- Shangri-La’s Far Eastern Plaza Hotel, Taipei
- Kowloon Shangri-La, Hong Kong
- Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok
- China World Hotel, Beijing
Shangri-La’s Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa in Kota Kinabalu placed among the Top 15 Resorts in Asia. Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney placed on the Top 15 City Hotels in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, while Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver was voted to the “Up and Coming” list by the editors of Travel + Leisure.
The World’s Best Awards results are based upon an online survey in which Travel + Leisure readers evaluated hotels on five characteristics: rooms and facilities, location, service, restaurants and food, and value. The publication calculated the average rating of each characteristic and tabulated each property’s overall score.
Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific’s leading luxury hotel group, currently owns and/or manages 62 hotels under the deluxe Shangri-La and mid market Traders brands, with a room inventory of over 28,000. The group has over 40 projects under development in Austria, Canada, mainland China, France, India, Macau, Maldives, Philippines, Qatar, Seychelles, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States. For more information and reservations, please contact a travel professional or access the website at www.shangri-la.com.
For digitised pictures of the group’s hotels, go to http://www.shangri-la.com/imagelibrary.