Saturday, October 15, 2005

Brunei's The Empire Hotel voted Best Resort


Brunei's palatial The Empire Hotel & Country Club was voted as the 'Best Resort Hotel' for the second year in a row in Travel Trade Gazette Asia's annual travel awards.

The accolade in TTG Asia's 16th Annual Travel Awards 2005, which was held in Pattaya, Thailand, was from a poll of the region's travel agents, tour operators and destination management companies.

The award was collected by Director of Events Shafar Jamaludin, who was attending the IT&CMA event held in Pattaya to further promote The Empire Hotel & Country Club as an ideal venue for meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions and events.

Over the past three years the magazine's readers have voted The Empire as 'Best New Resort', 'Best Independent Hotel' and 'Best Resort Hotel'.

One of the world's largest and most luxurious resorts and a member of the prestigious WORLDHOTELS' Deluxe Collection, The Empire's latest award follows three prestigious honours in last year's World Travel Awards - Asia's Leading Golf Resort, Asia's Leading Resort and Brunei's Leading Hotel.

The 360-room resort with 63 lavish suites and private villas is renowned as the most opulent in Asia, spread over 180 hectares (445 acres) of manicured gardens incorporating a floodlit Jack Nicklaus-designed championship golf course overlooking the South China Sea.

In previous World Travel Awards it also won the 'World's Leading Presidential Suite' category for its breathtaking Emperor Suite, one of the world's largest at 666 sq m, including its own indoor swimming pool that has counted royalty, heads of state and famous celebrities including former US President Bill Clinton and Chinese leaders among guests.

The Empire Hotel & Country Club, on the rainforested island of Borneo, continues to make a name for itself not only as Asia's most opulent resort but also as an emerging MICE venue and prominent destination for golf and scuba-diving.

Its golf course this year received the ultimate recognition when sanctioned by the Asian Tour for the inaugural Brunei Open.

A new PADI dive centre is meanwhile opening Brunei's spectacular underwater reefs and shipwrecks to scuba-tourism for the first time.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin Weekend

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