KOH SAMUI, Thailand (July 23, 2020) – Meliá Koh Samui has been granted the Thai government’s new ‘Amazing Thailand Safety and Health Administration (SHA)’ certificate, recognising the resort’s health, safety and hygiene measures designed to prevent the spread of the pandemic. The first Meliá property launched in Thailand, the 159-room and 41-suite luxury resort overlooking...
NEW YORK (July 20, 2020) — The Chedi Muscat, a 160-room seaside resort on the Gulf of Oman, was crowned with laurels by hundreds of thousands of Travel + Leisure readers, who voted the property into the no. 2 spot on a list of the top hotels in the Middle East and North Africa. Announced...
CAM RANH, Vietnam (July 8, 2020) – The Anam, a 77-villa and 136-room-and-suite resort overlooking Long Beach, is one of only two Vietnamese resorts to be named a finalist in this year’s Luxury Lifestyle Magazine Readers’ Travel Awards. The Anam is a finalist in the “Best Hotel in Asia” category of the global awards that...
HO TRAM, Vietnam (June 4, 2020) — The Bluffs Ho Tram Strip has retained its standing as top club in Vietnam according to the latest Top 100 Golf Courses’ rankings for the country: updated for 2020 and released in May. Not only was the club rated best in class for the country, it also kept...
NEW YORK (Mar. 5, 2020) — A year after Al Bait Sharjah opened in the U.A.E. as an antidote to the towering hospitality ambitions of nearby Dubai, the resort has won acclaim as one of the most remarkable new hotels in the world. Travel + Leisure magazine on Feb. 20 named the resort to its 2020...
HANOI (Feb. 13, 2020) — Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has been awarded a Five-Star rating—the top level of recognition—from Forbes Travel Guide in the independent ratings agency’s assessment of luxury hotels, restaurants and spas in Vietnam. “Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is a supremely beautiful hotel, inside and out. Every corner is a compelling photo opportunity,...
Not all hotel industry awards are cut from the same bolt of silk. Some are pay-for-play propositions that mean little, at the end of the day, since you pay for what you get. Others are the distillation of a meaningful effort. Among those are DestinAsian’s Readers’ Choice Awards. The 2020 Awards were announced Feb. 2,...
HO TRAM, Vietnam (Jan. 21, 2020) — The Bluffs Ho Tram Strip has retained its standing as one of thebest golf courses in the world, according to Golf Digest The club on Vietnam’s south-central coast came in at no. 76 in the third instalment of the planet’s most widely-read golf publication’s ‘World 100 Greatest Golf...
YANGON, Myanmar (Dec. 5, 2019) — “Of the many golf courses I have seen in the world, Pun Hlaing Golf Club has to be in the top five. It reminds me of Augusta, Georgia”. So said golfing legend Gary Player back in 2002. Of course, he may have been patting himself on the back when...
CAM RANH, Vietnam (Nov. 8, 2019) – The Anam, a 77-villa and 136-room resort overlooking Vietnam’s pristine Long Beach, has clinched four 2019 Haute Grandeur Global Excellence Awards. The five-star resort was recognised as the ‘Best Corporate Resort on a Global Level’, ‘Best Villa Resort in Asia’, ‘Most Luxurious Suite in Asia’ for ‘The Anam...
