'Sri Lanka's leading business hotel':

Hilton Colombo honoured at WTM

The Hilton Colombo by night

The Hilton Colombo was voted Sri Lanka's Leading Business Hotel at the World Travel Awards (WTM) held in London. The winners are selected through an online voting system by travel agents around the world. This year with a 10 percent increase in registration since April has brought a total number of 183,000 registered voters.

The World Travel Awards are the most comprehensive and most prestigious awards programme in the global travel industry.

Attended by the leaders of the industry, the World Travel Awards are regarded as the event and forum that serves to acknowledge, reward and celebrate the enormous achievements in all sectors of the global travel industry and also acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as a world class competition and the travel industry's equivalent to the Oscars.

World Travel Awards, President and Founder Graham Cooke has said "World Travel Market is the largest and most important business to business event for the international travel and tourism industry and the most appropriate place and time for us to honour and showcase the ultimate pursuit of excellence throughout every sector and region worldwide.

The awards critically and objectively compare all aspects of competition and customer expectations." Hilton Colombo, General Manager Jerome Auvity said, "We are honoured to have been chosen as Sri Lanka's Leading Business Hotel at one of the most prestigious events in the world.

This will definitely encourage my team to work towards great heights in the future. And for Tourism in Sri Lanka it will be an added benefit for the country, as apart from the Hilton Colombo, another four leading hotels in Sri Lanka have won in various categories." In 2007 the Hilton Colombo was voted the Leading Hotel in Sri Lanka and in 2005 as Sri Lanka's Best Hotel.