Hong Kong | Langham Place Hotel has won the prestigious 'Best New City Hotel' award in the 16th Annual Travel Awards 2005, presented by TTG Asia. Voted by the readers of TTG Asia, TTG China, BTN Asia Pacific, BTN China and TTGmice, this award recognizes Langham Place Hotel as the most outstanding new city Hotel across Asia.

Brett Butcher, Managing Director of Langham Place Hotel said, 'It is a real honour to be voted as the "Best New City Hotel" in Asia by our partners in the travel trade. This award affirms the Hotel's effort in providing our customers with an elegant and innovative five star hotel experience. By focusing on our guests business needs, we installed Omnipresent WIFI, IP Telephony and 42 inch Plasma TVs making the Hotel the most technologically advanced hotel in Asia. We then focus on their relaxation needs and developed the best Oriental Spa experience in Hong Kong at Chuan Spa which occupies the top three floors of the Hotel.' 'When Hotels focus on what the customers want and deliver them with style, it is a recipe for success.' summed up Mr. Butcher.

Jeffrey van Vorsellen, the Hotel Manager, went on to add, 'Not only do we provide a 21st century Hotel at Langham Place Hotel, we provide it in one of the most colourful and exciting districts of Hong Kong. Guests stay with us as they want to experience the real Hong Kong. At the same time, they can stay connected by being in the centre of Kowloon. Guests can gain easy access to anywhere in Hong Kong with the Hotel being situated directly above the MTR subway station and they can enjoy 600,000 square feet of shopping at Langham Place Mall which is linked to the Hotel by an air-conditioned walkbridge.'

In addition to the 'Best New City Hotel' award presented by TTG Asia, Langham Place Hotel has also been awarded the following accolades in 2005:

  • CIO 100 Honouree 2005 (CIO Asia's annual index of Asia's top performing enterprise users of IT)
  • Hong Kong Management Association Award for Excellence in Training 2005-Gold Medal

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 140 years, this flagship hotel has been at the forefront of sophisticated and gracious hospitality. Today, all Langham Hotels worldwide inherit the same philosophy that reflects elegance, continuous innovation and genuine hospitality creating a truly unique hotel experience.

Langham Hotels International (LHI) features six properties with over 2,700 rooms in five gateway cities across the four continents, namely, London, Boston, Hong Kong (2), Melbourne and Auckland. In each city Langham Hotels is associated with the prestigious "The Leading Hotels of the World" group which represents some of the world's finest luxury hotels.

LHI is wholly owned by Great Eagle Holdings Limited, a publicly listed company (HKSE: 41) which was founded in 1963 and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972.

For information of Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok, Hong Kong, please visit:

Sherona Shng
Vice President - Communications
(852) 3552 3938
Langham

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