TUI, Germany’s leading tour operator, every year carries out the biggest survey in the tourism industry to assess the quality and service of some 8,000 holiday hotels around the world on the basis of the opinions of around 500,000 customers. The 100 best hotels win the coveted hotel award, the “TUI Holly 2016“.
This year, 8 Greek hotels were awarded, 4 of which are located in Kos (Iotel Horizon Beach Resort, Hotel Palladium, Neptune Hotels Resort Convention Centre Spa and Palazzo del Mare), 3 in Rhodes (Atlantica Imperial Resort Spa, Kalithea Horizon Royal and Lidos Mare) and 1 in Heraklion (Iotel Anissa Village).
Greece ranked third among countries with the highest number of winning hotels while Turkey ranked first with 31 hotels.
The owner of the Grand Hotel Residencia, Theo Gerlach, 87 was honored for lifetime achievement. He bought the first pieces of land on Gran Canaria in 1970, opened his first hotel four years later and dedicated all his life to the preservation of a clean environment and proper use of natural resources
Winners in separate award categories were as follows:
Better TUI hotel | Grand Hotel Residencia, Gran Canaria
Best hotel in the West Mediterranean / Atlantic | Hotel Albergaria Dias, Madeira
Best hotel in East Mediterranean | Hotel Yetkin, Turkey
Best hotel in distant destination | Chong Fah Beach Resort, Thailand
Best club | Robinson Club Soma Bay, Egypt
See the complete list of 100 winning hotels here
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