Third Consumer Survey Launched to Find Best Hotels and Resort in Asia

- December 16, 2006 - Leading online accommodation provider, HotelClub in conjunction with CNN International, is calling for entries to nominate Asia"s best hotels and resorts in the third annual consumer survey. Anyone can nominate their favourite three hotels or resorts across the Asian region from today until 31 December 2006.

To nominate you favourite hotel please log on to: www.HotelClub.com/asia/ . Nominations can be for small and unique properties through to 5 star resorts - it is truly the customer"s choice! Hotels and resorts are voted on the following criteria and scored out of 10 (with 10 equalling the best): ambience, family friendliness, rooms, restaurant facilities, cleanliness, business facilities, location, leisure facilities, staff attitude and value for money.

By entering, there is a chance to win one million WorldPerks Bonus Miles courtesy of Northwest Airlines, hotel stays from HotelClub, free car hire from webcarhire.com, VIP Airport Lunge access supplied by Priority Pass, Music Download subscriptions from Naxos plus there are hundreds of weekly prizes to be given away once an entry is completed! With over 70,000 hotels & resorts to chose from in the region, get voting now to make sure you favourite hotel is included!

Everyone from around the world will have the chance to vote in this unique program. The nominations will be used to select the best of the best in the third edition of "Asia"s Best Hotels & Resorts", which will be published in mid 2007 in conjunction with leading travel publisher Insight Guides. The guide will be the third in the series and will continue the highly successful "Best Hotels & Resorts" series.

In 2002, the first edition of the survey was conducted and 3,813 hotels received nominations from 42,000 votes. From those nominated hotels 300 were shortlisted (from 21 countries) to appear in the first edition of "Asia"s Best Hotels and Resorts" Guidebook. In the 2004 survey, over 3,700 hotels & resorts were nominated from 64,000 votes which saw the 2nd edition of Asia"s Best Hotels & Resorts Guidebook published with 400 hotels & resorts from 22 countries being featured.

Over 90 million* international arrivals have visited over 33 destinations within Asian region up to 14 June 2006. With its unique culture, attitude to service and the indulgence offered by spa resorts, it is clear why Asia is becoming a love affair with international traveller.

"A hotel"s ultimate critic is its guests - someone who has sampled the food, tried the beds and been served by the staff," said Chloe Lim, Director of Sales and Marketing, HotelClub. "This survey allows us the find out which hotels are the best so we can continue to meet travellers needs on our website"

Other supporters of the survey include OctopusTravel.com, Insight Guides, Priority Pass and Naxos.

HotelClub offers over to 21,000 hotel accommodation choices in 2,500 cities and 109 countries worldwide. HotelClub has over 1.4 million consumer reviews that provide independent advice on each hotel.

The Search for Asia"s Best Hotels and Resorts is proudly brought to you by HotelClub, CNN and Northwest Airlines in association with RatesToGo.com, AsiaHotels.com, OctopusTravel.com, Insight Guides, Priority Pass, WebCarHire.com and Naxos.

*Source: http://www.pata.org/patasite/index.php?id=111 accessed on 11.10.2006

For further information please contact:
Chloe Lim
Director of Global Marketing
Flairview Travel
Tel: +61 2 8263 5106
Fax: +61 2 9264 0559
Email: flairview.com" target="_blank">chloe.limflairview.com

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