Astir Palace Counts Honors at 2015 World Travel Awards
Astir Palace’s units “The Westin Athens” and “Arion Resort & Spa” came out winners at the prestigious 2015 World Travel Awards (WTA) held recently in Sardinia, Italy.
Hailed as “the Oscars of the travel industry,” the World Travel Awards are held once a year and recognize, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry on a global scale.
The Westin Athens, Astir Palace Beach Resort saw a double win at this year’s WTA ceremony and won the titles of Greece’s Leading Conference Hotel and Greece’s Leading Family Resort.
The Presidential Suite of Arion Resort & Spa, Astir Palace, was recognised by the awards platform, being named Greece’s Leading Hotel Suite for the second year in a row.
The World Travel Awards were established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate the enormous achievements in all sectors of the global travel industry.
Travel professionals and their clients have come to regard the World Travel Awards as the best endorsement that a brand named travel product could receive.
WTA’s global media partner network includes International New York Times, TV5Monde, CNBC Arabiya, Newsweek, Outlook Traveller, Travel & Leisure, Khaleej Times, Trade Arabia, TTN, Trav Talk India, Publituris, ASTA Network, Breaking Travel News, eTurboNews, Travel Daily News International and Focus on Travel News.
This global media partner network has a monthly readership of 1.7 million and a TV audience reach of 90 million viewers.
Astir’s achievements at the 2015 World Travel Awards follows it receiving two awards and one silver distinction at the Greek Hospitality Awards 2015 in Athens this past June.