Park Hyatt Saigon wins best hotel award in Ho Chi Minh City
Update: May 15, 2009
Park Hyatt Saigon voted “Best Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City” in the fourth annual Readers’ Choice Awards Poll of DestinAsian, Asia’s leading luxury travel and lifestyle magazine.

This is the third consecutive year for Park Hyatt Saigon to win Best Hotel in HCMC. This prestigious accolade, given by the readers of this luxury travel and lifestyle magazine, once again firmly positions Park Hyatt Saigon as the hotel of choice in the city. Being listed for the third time on this comprehensive poll is a true testimony of Park Hyatt Saigon’s achievements as the premiere accommodation address in HCMC and first choice for the highest level of service.

“This prestigious accolade is wonderful recognition for the international standards of product and service provided by Park Hyatt Saigon. Our authentic hospitality is setting the benchmark for service in Vietnam and places HCMC on the world stage in travel. Our goal is to continue to raise the bar in service excellence and further develop Vietnam as a luxury travel destination catering to the discerning traveller,” said Michael Golden, General Manager, Park Hyatt Saigon.

DestinAsian is a bimonthly publication with a readership of 125,475 per edition. It is distributed to sophisticated and affluent travellers through subscription, at news-stands, in-flight and controlled circulation throughout Asia and beyond. Key markets include Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and Australia, in addition to its rapid expansion in China and Europe. The publication targets those individuals who not only enjoy travel, but also appreciate the finer things in life.

The readers’ survey was conducted among the magazine’s readership of experienced travelers on their favourite destinations, hotels and airlines in the Asia Pacific region. “The longer term outlook for travel and tourism globally and in the Asia-Pacific was positive even if the short term road might be a little rough, the Asia-Pacific industry was one of the most efficient in the world.  Airlines, hotels and other travel service providers in the region had to weather the Asian financial crisis a decade ago and that experience will help them though the global crisis this time around.,” said Ronald Liem, founder, publisher and managing director of the magazine.

Park Hyatt Saigon was also voted “Best Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City” in the AsiaMoney 2007 Travel Poll held by AsiaMoney magazine, a leading capital markets publication based in Hong Kong. The same year, Business Traveller Asia Pacific magazine named Park Hyatt Saigon the “Best Business Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City” in its annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

Besides this prestigious award, the hotel has also been awarded 2nd place in Best New Business Hotel in Asia Pacific. In addition, in November 2006, Park Hyatt Saigon was voted “Best Business Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City” in the 11th annual World’s Best Business Hotels poll conducted by Travel + Leisure magazine. More recently, Park Hyatt Saigon was awarded “Best Luxury Hotel” by TripAdvisor travel community for 2008.
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