A Hat-Trick for the Lowry Hotel
Hot on the heels of their success at last night’s (26 April 2007) Manchester Tourism Awards hosted by Bolton-born TV presenter and Radio One DJ Sara Cox, the city’s leading hotel, Rocco Forte’s The Lowry, is celebrating a hat trick of nominations for the prestigious 14th Annual Travel Awards.
The nominations announced this week are for the following categories;
England's Leading Business Hotel:
England's Leading Conference Hotel:
England's Leading Suite: The Charles Forte Suite (Penthouse):
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. World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world’s travel and tourism industry. With thousands of votes cast by travel professionals from 160,000 travel agencies in over 200 countries across the globe, winning a World Travel Award has become one of the highest accolades a travel product can achieve.
Jodi McGarry, Sales & Marketing Director at Rocco Forte’s The Lowry Hotel comments;
“It’s an absolute honour to have been recognised for these awards. Three nominations is fantastic news and a real credit to everyone that works tirelessly to make the hotel one of the best in the country.”
Voting has already opened and will continue throughout the year. The awards will announced in October 2007
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For further information, please contact:
Sarah Marsh, Marcella Clarke or Peter Burling at Brazen PR. T: 0161 923 4994 or 07779 596 583. E: or sarahmarsh@brazenpr.com or marcella@brazenpr.com
NOTES FOR EDITORS
Rocco Forte Hotels was established in 1996 to create a collection of luxury hotels in Europe. The hotels have individual styles, with each hotel reflecting its nationality and location. The collection is linked together under the Rocco Forte Hotels brand, which guarantees attention to detail, quality and service delivery.
The Rocco Forte Hotels collection includes:
- Hotel de Russie, Rome
- Hotel Savoy, Florence
- Hotel du Rome, Berlin
- The Balmoral, Edinburgh
- The Lowry Hotel, Manchester
- Hotel Astoria, St Petersburg
- Hotel Amigo, Brussels
- Le Richemond, Geneva (currently closed for refurbishment)
- Brown’s Hotel, London
- Villa Kennedy, Frankfurt
Future openings:
Munich – spring 2007
Prague - 2008
Verdura Golf & Spa Resort, Sicily – 2008
For further information and online reservations, please visit the Rocco Forte Hotels website: www.roccofortehotels.com.
Angleterre Hotel, St Petersburg, is a deluxe four-star sister to Hotel Astoria. For information and reservations, please visit www.angleterrehotel.com.
