World Travel Awards celebrates its 24th anniversary this year and is acknowledged across the globe as the ultimate travel accolade.
Attended by senior executives from major travel companies, operators, destinations, World Travel Awards events are universally respected as providing established, top level networking opportunities, regionally and globally.
World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry. Today, the World Travel Awards brand is recognised globally as the ultimate hallmark of quality, with winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire.
Each year World Travel Awards covers the globe with a series of regional gala ceremonies staged to recognise and celebrate individual and collective successes within each key geographical region.
This time Sri Lanka is selected as the Asia's Leading Adventure Tourism Destination 2017. This was previously won by Japan in year 2016.
Hosted by the luxury Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai, the prestigious event was attended by 250 hospitality leaders from across the regions.
World Travel Awards Vice President, Chris Frost, said: "What a fantastic evening it’s been here at Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai. “It has been an honour to recognise some of the leading hospitality providers from Asia and Australasia tonight and I offer my heartfelt congratulations to each and every one of them. "It is your hard work, dedication, initiative and investment that makes the tourism sector the success it is today.”
Frost continued: “I look forward to seeing many of tonight’s winners later this year at the Grand Final in Vietnam, where they will compete for the global titles.”
Also among the winners was The Ascott Limited which walked away with the title of Asia's Leading Serviced Apartment Brand (The Ascott Limited) and Asia's Leading Serviced Apartments (Ascott Raffles City Chengdu).
Staying in Asia, Vinpearl Da Nang Resort & Villas was named Vietnam's Leading Beach Resort while the Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai scooped two trophies: Asia's Leading Conference Hotel and China’s Leading Business Hotel.
A full list of winners from the World Travel Awards Asia & Australasia is available in the official website www.worldtravelawards.com
