48 SLH Hotels recognised with Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards
Condé Nast Traveller recently announced the results of its 22nd annual Readers’ Choice Awards, recognising 48 hotels from the SLH portfolio. S Hotel Jamaica (Montego Bay, Jamaica) was ranked number one hotel in the Caribbean whilst Archipelagos Hotel (Mykonos, Greece) topped the list of best hotels in Greece. Il Saviatino was also awarded number one hotel in Florence.
Jean-Francois Ferret, CEO, Small Luxury Hotels of the World says: “We are delighted to congratulate our 48 SLH hoteliers on their outstanding excellence. Conde Nast Traveller’s readers have once again awarded our hotels – a superb accomplishment which continues to validate our mission to perfectly match the world’s independent travellers with the world’s most individual, intimate and intense hotel and travel experiences.”
Small Luxury Hotels of the World™ is the most desirable community of independently minded travellers and independently spirited hotels in the world. The company has personally visited, vetted and verified over 500 hotels in more than 80 countries.
For the first time, Conde Nast Traveller combined the annual surveys in the US and UK into one global Reader’s Choice Awards list. More than 600,000 Condé Nast Traveller readers across the globe submitted a recording-breaking number of responses rating their travel experiences to provide a full snapshot of where and how we travel today.
The Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious recognition of excellence in the travel industry and are commonly known as “the best of the best of travel.”
The 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards are published exclusively on Condé Nast Traveller’s website at www.cntraveler.com/rca and celebrated in the November issue.
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