Six Hotels from Cairns Recognised in the 2010 HotelClub Hotel Awards

    CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA, October 18, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- HotelClub (www.hotelclub.com), a world-leading global accommodation website offering hotel and accommodation bookings, today announced six winners from Cairns in the HotelClub Hotel Awards 2010.

HotelClub Hotel Awards is a flagship programme from HotelClub that will this year honour outstanding hotels via two award types - the Popular Destinations awards and the Best Kept Secrets awards. The Popular Destinations awards are split into categories for Outstanding Value, Outstanding Service and Outstanding Luxury, honouring HotelClub's most outstanding hotels in the most popular hotel destinations around the world. In contrast, the Best Kept Secrets awards are divided into Outstanding Beach Resort, Outstanding Secluded Boutique Hotel and Top Hotel on a Shoestring Budget categories that give recognition to the most outstanding hotels in the hottest up-and-coming destinations for 2010.

This year, six award-winning Cairns hotels have been recognised under the Popular Destinations awards. The winners are as follows:

Winners in the Outstanding Value category

- Rydges Tradewinds Hotel & Spa Cairns
- Cairns Luxury Apartments
- The Sebel Cairns

Winners in the Outstanding Service category

- Cairns Harbour Lights
- Shangri La Hotel The Marina Cairns
- Heritage Cairns Motel

The Popular Destinations winners have been selected based on genuine guest reviews posted on www.hotelclub.com.

The three winning Cairns hotels and seven other Cairns finalists in each category will receive a beautifully designed certificate for their lobby or reception area. Furthermore, they will enjoy extensive promotion by HotelClub over the next 12 months.

For example, the 10 Cairns hotels in each category will be listed on HotelClub's brand-new Hotel Awards mini-site and will be flagged in HotelClub's search results with a special hotel awards ribbon. HotelClub will also promote the hotels through social media including blogs, Facebook and Twitter. The extensive awards promotion ultimately benefits travellers in helping them make better informed choices on their hotel bookings. Travellers are further rewarded when booking with HotelClub through the pioneering HotelClub Rewards Program, where every booking made earns them HotelClub Member Dollars, which can be used on their next booking.

Said Timothy Hughes, HotelClub's Vice President of Hotel Services for Asia Pacific: "HotelClub sends our heartiest congratulations to all the winners of the Hotel Awards 2010. The Best Kept Secrets winners have risen to the top based on objective assessments by HotelClub's team of experts. The Popular Destinations winners have been selected based on genuine guest reviews posted on www.hotelclub.com. We look forward to enduring partnerships with the winners over the next 12 months and beyond."

HotelClub is a world leading global accommodation website offering hotel and accommodation bookings for up to 12 months in advance. Established in 1996, HotelClub provides consumers with over 69,000 accommodation choices in over 7,300 cities worldwide throughout 138 countries. HotelClub is a truly global offering with its discount hotel services available in fourteen languages. The company operates three websites - HotelClub.com, RatesToGo.com and AsiaHotels.com.

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