Southern Sun honoured Globally as Africa's best.
Southern Sun was officially recognized as Africa’s Leading Hotel Brand when the group received a prestigious World Travel Award at a ceremony on Wednesday, 30th May at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi. | |
The result of the 14th Annual World Travel Awards - Middle East & Africa category – was based on a decision reached by a total of 167 000 travel professionals worldwide, including 110 000 travel agents.
Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as the "Travel industry's equivalent to the Oscars", the World Travel Awards are the most comprehensive and most prestigious awards program in global travel industry today. Attended by the captains of industry, the World Travel Awards ceremonies are highly regarded as the calendar event and forum that serves to acknowledge, reward and celebrate the enormous achievements found in all sectors of the global travel industry.
The ceremony was broadcasted by the official media partner of the World Travel Awards, BBC World, and covered by other media partners such as Breaking Travel News, Conde Nast, Herald Tribune, Khaleej Times, Gulf News, TTN, Hotel Executive, Emirates Today, Ahlan, Time Out, Travtalk ME, Al Bayan, Dubai Eye, Trends Magazine, Arabian Travel News, Jumeirah Beach magazine and Shawati' magazine.
For more media information, please contact:
Bill Gallagher at Southern Sun Hotels on 011-510-7500 or billg@southernsun.com
Tertia Kruger at Baird’s Renaissance on 011-504-4000, tertia@bairds.co.za or 083-556-5229
