Shangri-La Hotels And Resorts Receives 17 Awards From Asiamoney Travel Poll 2008

Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, has been voted both Asia's Best Hotel Brand for Business and Asia's Best Hotel Brand for Vacation in the 16TH annual travel poll of Asiamoney magazine.

Hong Kong (PRWEB) March 22, 2008 -- Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, has been voted both Asia's Best Hotel Brand for Business and Asia's Best Hotel Brand for Vacation in the 16TH annual travel poll of Asiamoney magazine. Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong was voted Asia's Best Business Hotel; Asia's Best Facilities for Conferences and Seminars; Asia's Best Business Centre Facilities; and the first runner-up for Asia's Best Hotel in Individual City (Hong Kong) category.

In addition, eight Shangri-La hotels were the winners of Asia's Best Hotels in Individual Cities category -- Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta; Makati Shangri-La, Manila; Shangri-La's Far Eastern Plaza Hotel, Taipei; Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing; Shangri-La Hotel, Guangzhou; Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur; Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai; and Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore.

Golden Circle was chosen as one of Asia's Best Hotel Loyalty Programmes and Shangri-La's Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu and its CHI, The Spa, were the first runners-up in the Asia's Best Vacation Resort and Asia's Best Spa categories.

Asiamoney, launched in 1989, provides leading reports and analyses of the diversified financial and investment markets for capital issuers, borrowers, institutional investors and senior corporate and government monetary decision makers with business interests in the Asia Pacific countries.

Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, currently owns and manages 55 hotels under the five-star Shangri-La and four-star Traders brands, with a rooms inventory of over 28,000. The group has over 50 projects under development in Austria, Canada, mainland China, France, India, Japan, 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.

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