Westin Hotels in China Awarded Top Honors at the TTG China Travel Awards 2008

BEIJING, May 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- The Westin Beijing, Financial Street, The Westin Bund Center, Shanghai and The Westin Guangzhou took home top honors at the 2008 inaugural TTG China Travel Awards held in Shanghai.

The TTG China Travel awards were modeled off the coveted annual TTG Travel Awards for Asia Pacific, and launched this year to recognize the outstanding performers in travel and tourism industry of China. All readers from TTG China, TTG-BTmice China, TTG Asia and TTGmice were invited to vote from January to the end of February. Over 12,600 Asia Pacific TTG readers cast their ballots for their favorite travel and trade organizations.

Over 300 of China’s most influential industry professionals attended the gala event, now set to be an annual affair in which 39 of the best travel and trade organizations in China were recognized.

All three Westin hotels in China were recognized at the much anticipated awards ceremony and won accolades in the following categories, ‘Best Luxury Hotel in Shanghai’ The Westin Bund Center, Shanghai; ‘Best Meetings and Conventions Hotel in Beijing’ The Westin Beijing, Financial Street and ‘Best New Hotel in Guangdong’ The Westin Guangzhou.

Mr. Qian Jin, Senior Vice President of Operations for Starwood Hotels & Resorts, China & Taiwan, said, “The Westin brand has certainly established itself as one of the top five star hotel brands in China. I am extremely proud that all three hotels were recognized in varying categories at this illustrious award ceremony.”

Westin Hotels & Resorts, with 122 hotels and resorts in 30 countries and territories, is owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and was voted the number one upper-upscale hotel brand for three years in Business Travel News’ “Annual U.S. Hotel Chain Survey”.

About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 900 properties in more than 100 countries and 155,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis(R), The Luxury Collection(R), Sheraton(R), Westin(R), Four Points(R) by Sheraton, W(R), Le Meridien(R) and the recently announced Aloft(SM) and Element(SM) Hotels. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit http://www.starwoodhotels.com/pressclub .

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