Asia's leading brands spearhead global tourism recovery

Asia’s role in spearheading the global recovery of travel and tourism is to be acknowledged by World Travel Awards as it prepares to host its 2011 Asia & Australasia Ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand on 28 September.

The awards programme, hailed as the ‘Oscars of the travel industry’, noted that Asia has experienced double-digit growth in tourist arrivals during the first half of 2011, despite the impact of the tsunami in Japan and the on-going austerity challenges in Europe and North America.

The ceremony, which takes place at Dusit Thani Bangkok Hotel, is expected to attract the top decision-makers and thought leaders from across Asia and Australasia as they compete for the most influential accolade in travel.

After months of intense voting featuring more than 2,000 organisations, the nominees have been whittled down to the elite few, and include such organisations as Raffles Hotels & Resorts, Cathay Pacific, Six Senses, Mandarin Oriental, Qantas Airways, The Ritz Carlton and Aman Resorts.

Graham E. Cooke, President & Founder, World Travel Awards, underlined how Asia’s strong performance this year is being fuelled by a surge in intra-regional.

Source - breakingtravelnews