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Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi wins PATA’s top award
The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi won the
Pacific-Asia Travel Association’s (PATA) 2010 gold award in the Heritage
category on August 24. The award ceremony will take place on September 17 in
Macau.
The award honors the hotel for its effort in refurbishing, preserving and
developing one of Southeast Asia's most treasured properties, and turning the
legendary Metropole Hanoi into the Sofitel groups leading hotel.
The 100- year old hotel spent over US$20 million in renovations, over the past
four years (2004-2009). However, it still retains the original 1901
architecture.
The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi’s themed suites indulge its connections to
legendary people like Charlie Chaplin, Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene who
stayed at the hotel.
In May, Sofitel Metropole of Ha Noi has made the Condé Nast Traveler Hot List
2010, the publication’s annual list of the “66 coolest new hotels in the world”
.
The hotel has received numerous other accolades in the past. The Sofitel
Metropole was chosen as one of the 500 best hotels in the world by readers of
Travel & Leisure and Condé Nast Travel; selected as the best hotel in Ha Noi by
Hong Kong’s Destin Asian, Asia Money magazine, and Viet Nam’s VnEconomy; and
received an award from the Viet Nam Tourism Association.
Sofitel Metropole Ha Noi was also named 2007’s best hotel for businessmen in a
capital city, by readers of the Business Traveler Asia Pacific, a leading travel
magazine.
Source: Vietnam News Agency – Compiled by Anh Vu |
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