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   World
                Travel Awards 2006 17
                Awards for ten Exclusive Island Hotels & Resorts member
                properties
                  
                    
                
  
                  
                 19
                September 2006 
                 
                 
                The 13th annual World Travel Awards Gala Ceremony, an event dedicated to the tremendous
                contributions and achievements of the travel industry, was hosted for the
                fourth time in
                the Caribbean the 19th September 2006, in the Turks & Caicos
                Islands.  
                 
                A total of 165,000 travel agencies and professionals in over 140
                countries worldwide have been asked to vote for their leading
                travel destinations, airlines, hotels and companies around the
                world.
                 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 thirteenth 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 :
                    
                 
                  
                  
                    
                        World's
                        Leading Hotel Burj
                        Al Arab   Middle
                        East's Leading Hotel Burj
                        Al Arab   Dubai's
                        Leading Hotel Burj
                        Al Arab   Africa's
                        Leading Resort Karafuu
                        Hotel Beach Resort   Tanzania's
                        Leading Hotel Karafuu
                        Hotel Beach Resort   Australasia's
                        Leading Resort Solitaire
                        Lodge   New
                        Zealand's
                        Leading Resort Solitaire
                        Lodge   Caribbean's
                        Leading Resort Royal
                        Plantation Ocho Rios   Jamaica's
                        Leading Resort Royal
                        Plantation Ocho Rios   Jamaica's
                        Leading Hotel Jamaica
                        Inn   Bermuda's
                        Leading Resort Cambridge
                        Beaches   Bermuda's
                        Leading Spa Resort Cambridge
                        Beaches   Anguilla's
                        Leading Resort CuisinArt
                        Resort & Spa   Belize's Leading
                        Resort Cayo
                        Espanto Resort   St.
                        Vincent & The Grenadines' Leading Resort 
					  Raffles
                        Resort Canouan Island   St.
                        Vincent & The Grenadines'
                        Leading Spa Resort 
					  Raffles
                        Resort Canouan Island   Maldives'
                        Leading Hotel Coco
                        Palm Dhuni Kolhu    | 
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                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   
                
      
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