2024 Historic Motels Worldwide® Annual Awards of Excellence Winners Introduced

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Motels and recipients have been honored on the 2024 Historic Motels Annual Awards of Excellence Ceremony and Gala on November 21, 2024, at The Omni Homestead Resort in Sizzling Springs, Virginia (United States of America).

WASHINGTON — Historic Motels Worldwide^® is happy to announce the distinguished winners of the 2024 Historic Motels Worldwide Annual Awards of Excellence.

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Award recipients have been honored on the night of Thursday, November 21, on the 2024 Historic Motels Annual Awards of Excellence Ceremony and Gala at The Omni Homestead Resort in Sizzling Springs, Virginia (United States of America), in entrance of an viewers of greater than 200 trade leaders, homeowners, common managers, senior administration, and representatives of the world’s best historic lodges. The Omni Homestead Resort, based within the scenic Allegheny Mountains in 1766, is essentially the most historic resort in america. It’s well-known for its iconic Heat Springs Swimming pools and championship fairways. TIME Journal lately included The Omni Homestead Resort on its record of the “ World’s Best Locations 2024.” The awards ceremony was the ultimate occasion of the 2024 Historic Motels Annual Convention held there the week of November 18.

In the course of the ceremony, 11 distinct awards of the Historic Motels Worldwide Annual Awards of Excellence have been introduced to hoteliers and lodges, recognizing them as the perfect of the perfect amongst their friends. Winners have been chosen from nominations by historic lodges, preservation supporters, prior award recipients, neighborhood leaders, and management from Historic Motels Worldwide. Member lodges from this system are among the many best historic lodges around the globe. The Historic Motels Annual Awards of Excellence Program acknowledges the head of this distinct group.

From greater than 500 nominations obtained, the awards committee evaluated and, after cautious consideration, chosen the next 2024 Historic Motels Worldwide Awards of Excellence winners:

Historic Motels Worldwide New Member of the 12 months
This award is introduced to a brand new member resort that greatest demonstrates quick engagement, activation, and passionate assist of Historic Motels Worldwide.
Winner: Half Moon (1954) Montego Bay, Jamaica

Historic Motels Worldwide Greatest Social Media of a Historic Lodge
This award is given to a resort that actively engages shoppers by sharing the perfect of their historical past by social media, together with Fb, Twitter/X, and Instagram with attention-grabbing historic details and tales.
Winner: Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar (1780) Bagac, Philippines

Historic Motels Worldwide Sustainability Champion
This award is introduced to a resort that greatest implements and practices revolutionary inexperienced initiatives and packages, demonstrating historic preservation is the final word inexperienced.
Winner: The Ok Membership (1832) Straffan, County Kildare, Eire

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Historic Motels Worldwide Legendary Household Historic Hoteliers of the 12 months
This award is introduced to a multi-generational household possession entity or administration firm which has served as an exemplary function mannequin within the operation of the historic resort entrusted to its stewardship, has demonstrated a long-term legacy of dedication to historic preservation, and has been an lively champion of Historic Motels Worldwide.
Winner: The Baverez Household, homeowners and managers of Les Hôtels Baverez since 1900

Historic Motels Worldwide Greatest Metropolis Middle Historic Lodge
This award is introduced to a resort situated in a metropolis middle that greatest celebrates its historical past within the visitor expertise and offers distinctive buyer hospitality and repair.
Winner: Thriller Lodge Budapest (1896) Budapest, Hungary

Historic Motels Worldwide Greatest Historic Resort
This award is introduced to the historic resort that greatest celebrates its historical past within the visitor expertise and offers distinctive buyer hospitality and repair.
Winner: Kviknes Lodge (1752) Balestrand, Norway

Greatest Historic Motels Worldwide Lodge in Europe
This award is introduced to a historic resort in Europe that greatest celebrates its historical past within the visitor expertise and offers distinctive buyer hospitality and repair.
Winner: The Grand York (1906) York, England, United Kingdom

Greatest Historic Motels Worldwide Lodge in Asia/Pacific
This award is introduced to a historic resort in Asia/Pacific that greatest celebrates its historical past within the visitor expertise and offers distinctive buyer hospitality and repair.
Winner: The Fullerton Lodge Singapore (1924) Singapore

Greatest Historic Motels Worldwide Lodge within the Americas
This award is introduced to a historic resort within the Americas that greatest celebrates its historical past within the visitor expertise and offers distinctive buyer hospitality and repair.
Winner: Fairmont Lodge Vancouver (1939) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Historic Motels Worldwide Historic Hotelier of the 12 months
This award is introduced to the recipient demonstrating the best contribution to furthering the celebration of historical past at historic lodges in addition to management and innovation.
Winner: Franck X. Arnold at The Savoy London (1889) London, England, United Kingdom

Historic Motels Worldwide Historian of the 12 months
This award is given to people who’ve made important contributions to the analysis and presentation of historical past, encouraging a deeper dialogue and broader understanding of the world’s most iconic and legendary lodges.
Winner: Andreas and Carola Augustin, editors of FamousHotels.org, “The Library of Hospitality”

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“It’s an honor to congratulate the entire 2024 Historic Motels Worldwide Annual Awards of Excellence winners,” stated Lawrence Horwitz, Govt Vice President, Historic Motels of America and Historic Motels Worldwide. “The winners are the best historic lodges and hoteliers from around the globe. The historic lodges nominated embody small historic inns, boutique lodges, life-style lodges, and resorts. They characterize small cities to massive cities to UNESCO World Heritage locations. We applaud the dedication and fervour of the hundreds of people working at these iconic and legendary lodges that hold the tales alive from the previous and make staying or celebrating particular events at these historic lodges memorable experiences. The lodges on this record characterize the easiest spirit of perseverance and preservation of historic lodges. By way of the numerous chapters these buildings have seen, it’s the care of their employees, homeowners, and operators and the assist of vacationers that permit these tales to proceed.”

To be nominated for the Historic Motels Worldwide Annual Awards of Excellence, the resort have to be a member of Historic Motels Worldwide, display how the resort elevated the popularity and celebration of the resort’s historical past, heritage, historic preservation, and its membership, in addition to how the resort (by its possession, management, and workers) contributes considerably as an trade chief within the designated award class.

Historic Motels Worldwide’s sibling program, Historic Motels of America^®, additionally introduced its assortment’s winners of the Historic Motels Annual Awards of Excellence this week. See the information about these nominees right here.

About Historic Motels Worldwide^®

Historic Motels Worldwide^® is a prestigious and distinctive resort assortment of historic treasures, together with luxurious historic lodges inbuilt former castles, chateaus, palaces, academies, haciendas, villas, monasteries, and different historic lodging spanning ten centuries. Historic Motels Worldwide represents the best and most distinctive world assortment of greater than 320 historic lodges in forty-nine nations. Motels inducted into Historic Motels Worldwide are genuine historic treasures, display historic preservation, and rejoice historic significance. Eligibility for induction into Historic Motels Worldwide is restricted to these distinctive historic lodges that adhere to the next standards: minimal age for the constructing is 75 years or older; traditionally related as a big location inside a historic district, traditionally important landmark, place of a historic occasion, former residence of a well-known particular person, or historic metropolis middle; resort celebrates its historical past by showcasing memorabilia, art work, pictures, and different examples of its historic significance; acknowledged by nationwide preservation or heritage buildings group or situated inside UNESCO World Heritage Website; and presently used as a historic resort. For extra data, please go to HistoricHotelsWorldwide.com.

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Contacts

Katherine Orr
Historic Motels of America│Historic Motels Worldwide
Director, Advertising and marketing Technique and Communications
Tel: +1-202-772-8337
korr@historichotels.org

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