Business Services Industry
More Than 40 Starwood Properties Make Conde Nast Traveler's 2003 16th Annual Readers' Choice Awards List
Business Wire, Nov 3, 2003
Business Editors
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2003
Nine Starwood Properties Named In The Top 100 "Best In The World" List; The Westin Turnberry in Scotland Ranked as Top European Resort
It's official... the votes are in and the people have spoken. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) earned the distinction of having more than 40 of its top hotels and resorts included in Conde Nast Traveler's 2003 Readers' Choice Awards List.
The November 2003 edition of Conde Nast Traveler includes the magazine's 16th Annual Readers' Choice Awards that features the Top 100 "Best in the World" list which rates the best in hotels, resorts, cities, islands, cruise lines, airlines and car rentals. Nine Starwood properties earned the distinction of making the Top 100 "Best in the World" list, while 32 additional Starwood properties were included in other top regional hotel and resort lists. Hotels and resorts were judged on the following criteria: rooms, service, food/dining, location, overall design, and activities/facilities (resorts only).
The Top 100 "Best in the World" included the following five Starwood properties:
-- The Westin Turnberry, Ayrshire, -- Hotel Bristol, A Westin Hotel, Scotland Vienna, Austria -- The Lanesborough, A St. Regis -- The St. Regis, Aspen, CO Hotel, London, England -- The Lodge at Koele, Lanai, HI -- The Phoenician, (a Luxury (a Luxury Collection resort) Collection resort) -- Hotel Alfonso XIII, Seville, -- Hotel Villa Cipriani, Asolo, Spain (a Luxury Collection hotel) Italy (a Sheraton hotel) -- The St. Regis, New York, NY
In addition, to the Top 100 "Best in the World" list, other Starwood properties were included in various regional hotels/resorts category lists:
Top 75 North American Hotels
-- The St. Regis, New York, NY -- The St. Regis, Houston, TX -- The St. Regis, Aspen, CO
Top 25 Asian Hotels
-- Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel -- The St. Regis, Beijing, China & Towers, Bangkok, Thailand
Top 20 Latin American Hotels
-- Park Tower, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Top 75 European Hotels:
-- The Lanesborough, A St. Regis -- Hotel Alfonso XIII, A Westin
Hotel, London, England Hotel, San Sebastian, Spain
-- Hotel Villa Cipriani, Asolo, -- Trianon Palace, A Westin
Italy (a Sheraton hotel) Hotel, Versailles, France
-- The Westin Excelsior, Florence, -- Hotel Goldener Hirsch,
Italy Salzburg, Austria
(a Luxury Collection hotel)
-- The Westin Palace, Madrid, -- Hotel Gritti Palace, Venice,
Spain Italy (a Luxury Collection
hotel)
-- Hotel Imperial, Vienna, Austria -- Hotel Bristol, A Westin Hotel,
(a Luxury Collection hotel) Vienna, Austria
Top 10 Pacific Rim Hotels:
-- Sheraton on the Park, Sydney, -- W Sydney, Sydney, Australia Australia -- The Westin Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Top 15 Latin American Resorts:
-- Sheraton Hacienda Del Mar, Los Cabos, Mexico
Top 20 Pacific Rim Resorts:
-- The Lodge at Koele, Lana'i, HI -- Princeville Resort, Kauai, HI (a Luxury Collection resort) (a Luxury Collection resort) -- The Manele Bay Hotel, Lana'i, HI -- Kapalua Bay Hotel, Maui, HI (a Luxury Collection resort) (a Luxury Collection resort)
Top 10 European Resorts:
-- The Westin Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland
Top 75 North American Resorts:
-- The Phoenician, Scottsdale, AZ -- The Westin La Paloma Resort & (a Luxury Collection resort) Spa, Tucson, AZ -- St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort -- The Westin Diplomat Resort & & Spa, Dana Point, CA Spa, Hollywood, FL -- The Westin Resort & Spa, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Reservations for any of the above-referenced hotels and resorts can be made by contacting the following:
For Westin Hotels & Resorts, please call 1-800-WESTIN-1. For Sheraton reservations, please call 1-800-325-3535. Reservations for Luxury Collection hotels and resorts may be made through the worldwide Luxury Collection Reservations offices, reachable toll-free in 34 countries (1-800-325-3589 in the U.S. or Canada). For additional information on St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, please call 1-877-STREGIS (1-877-787-3447). Reservations for W Hotels can be made by calling 877-WHOTELS. For additional information, please visit Starwood's brand websites at www.sheraton.com; www.westin.com; www.stregis.com; www.luxurycollection.com; www.whotels.com and www.fourpoints.com.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with more than 740 properties in more than 80 countries and 105,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. With internationally renowned brands, Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts including: St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, Four Points by Sheraton, W brands, as well as Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwood.com
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article


