Four World Travel Award Nominations For Langham

Four World Travel Award Nominations For Langham

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Langham receives four nominations in world travel industry's 'Oscars

(Auckland - 26 June 2007) -- The Langham Hotel Auckland has received four World Travel Awards' nominations - accolades hailed by the Wall Street Journal as the global "travel industry's equivalent to the Oscars".

Langham Hotel Auckland Royal Suite

The Langham Hotel Auckland has been nominated in the following categories:

* Australasia's Leading Hotel
* Australasia's Leading Suite: Royal Suite
* New Zealand's Leading Hotel - New Zealand's Leading Suite: Royal Suite

The Langham Hotel Auckland is up against premium international hotel's including Palazzo Versace Gold Coast, Four Seasons Hotel Sydney, The Hotel Windsor Melbourne, St Regis Resort Bora Bora and Jean-Michael Cousteau Fiji.

Langham Hotel Auckland lobby

The World Travel Awards are said to be the most comprehensive global travel awards programme and regarded within the industry as the highest endorsement a travel product can receive.

Travel products are reliant on the endorsement of fellow travel professionals for nominations and voting. Votes are cast globally from 167,000 travel agencies across 200 countries.

Candidates for nomination are based upon the previous year's voting with award categories extending across the global travel industry to include destinations, train services, luxury hotels, resorts, airlines, airports, cruise lines and safari lodges.
Travel agents are able to vote by visiting http://votenow.worldtravelawards.com/

Voting is open until 30 July 2007 and winners will be announced on 6 September 2007.

More on the World Travel Awards:

Now in their fourteenth year, the World Travel Awards were conceived in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world's travel and tourism industry.

For more information visit www.worldtravelawatds.com

Background Notes on the Langham:

Langham has a legendary hotel heritage dating back to 1865 when the Langham Hotel in London originally opened as Europe's first Grand Hotel. For over 140 years, this flagship hotel has been at the forefront of sophisticated and gracious hospitality.

Today, Langham Hotels International (LHI) features six properties with over 2,700 rooms in five gateway cities across four continents, namely in London, Boston, Hong Kong (2), Melbourne and Auckland.

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