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The Crystal Awards were instituted with the objective of honouring the places, people, companies and practices that deserve recognition for uncompromised commitment, constantly evolving to make themselves unique in terms of extending integrated offerings and world-class services. It aims to dramatically increase consumer awareness and recognition of the award’s value by encouraging supreme excellence within every sector of spa & wellness and travel & tourism worldwide. Serving as a platform for benchmarking standards and inspiring brands to improve levels of service and offerings for greater guest experience, the awards culminate to increased confidence in nominee and winner brands.
We congratulate our 2009 winners who have succeeded in the various stages of our judging methodology that ensures entrants are evaluated on their merits and actual performance from a guest’s perspective.
This being the sixth year in running, The Crystal Awards continue to be recognized as the most prestigious endorsement of excellence for the industry. We present here the winners line-up for The Crystal Awards Asia Pacific 2009.
Choosing the best among the best has been a laborious exercise as most nominees are running in extremely close competition with each other. Likewise we’d like to congratulate those brands that made it to the upper rungs of the final rounds. Worthy of mention are the top three contenders in six of the more popularly participated categories this year:
Best Hotel Spa
The Oriental Spa, The Landmark Mandarin Oriental [winner]
Spa at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong
i.sawan Residential Spa & Club, Grand Hyatt Erawan, Bangkok,
Thailand
Best Resort Spa
THE BARAI, Hua Hin, Thailand [winner]
Six Senses Spa at Soneva Gili by Six Senses, Maldives
Spa Qualia, Hamilton Island, Australia
Best Destination Spa
Chiva-Som Hua Hin, Thailand [winner]
Kamalaya Koh Samui, Thailand
Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru, Maldives
Best Wellness Retreat
COMO Shambhala Estate, Bali, Indonesia [winner]
Kamalaya Koh Samui, Thailand
Chiva-Som Hua Hin, Thailand
Best Signature Experience
The Enchanted Reef: A Journey to Serenity - Four Seasons Resort
Maldives at Kuda Huraa [winner]
Lanna Ceremony - The Dheva Spa and Wellness Centre,
Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi Chiang Mai, Thailand
Suam-Suam Panas Experience - Spa Village Malacca, Malaysia
Best Boutique Hotel Spa
Kayumanis Ubud Private Villa and Spa, Bali, Indonesia [winner]
DaLa Spa at Villa de daun, Kuta-Bali, Indonesia
Spa Village Tembok, Bali, Indonesia
We thank all participants of The Crystal Awards Asia Pacific 2009 and applaud those who qualified for the nominees list.
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