World Travel Awards 2004

Nine Awards for 7 Exclusive Island Hotels & Resorts member properties

13 December 2004


The 11th annual World Travel Awards Gala Ceremony, an event dedicated to the tremendous
contributions and achievements of the travel industry, was hosted for the third time in
the Caribbean the 11th December 2004, on the island of Barbados. 

The online voting system once again enabled the travel agents worldwide the opportunity to
let the world know who they think are the WORLD'S BEST in the Travel Industry, further
enhancing the value of the World Travel Awards as the professional's choice. Over 2.5
million voting forms were broadcasted to over 150,000 frontline agents and 80,000 travel
agencies worldwide. The voting was up by 18%, as more and more people now recognize the
global significance of achieving World Travel Awards winner's status. The winners were
announced at the awards gala ceremony.

The World Travel Awards was conceived in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world's travel and tourism industry. Now in its eleventh year, travel professionals and discerning travelers have come to regard the World Travel Awards as the very best endorsement that a travel product could hope to receive. 

Winners, amongst the Exclusive Island Hotels & Resorts member properties, are :

Indian Ocean's Leading Spa Resort Soneva Fushi Resort & Six Senses Spa   Maldives' Leading Spa Resort Soneva Fushi Resort & Six Senses Spa   Maldives' Leading Resort Coco Palm Resort & Spa   Europe's Leading Boutique Hotel Choupana Hills Resort & Spa   Portugal's Leading Spa Resort Choupana Hills Resort & Spa   Greece's Leading Spa Resort Aldemar Royal Mare Village & Thalasso   New Zealand's Leading Resort Eagles Nest   Bermuda's Leading Resort Cambridge Beaches   Tanzania Leading Hotel Sultan Palace Hotel

Contact: Press Office, Exclusive Island Hotels & Resorts, BP 80051, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex, France - Tel +33 (0)3 90 204 505, Fax +33 (0)3 90 204 506, e-mail: pr@eihr.com