The Langham Hotel Wins Top Visitor Accommodation

The Langham Hotel Wins New Zealand’s Top Visitor Accommodation

(Auckland – 30 August 2007) ----- The Langham Hotel Auckland was last night awarded the top hotel as well as the top overall visitor accommodation at the Tourism Industry Awards celebration dinner held in Auckland.

This win follows the property’s Best New Zealand City Hotel win earlier in the month at the 2007 HM Awards for Hotel and Accommodation Excellence held in Sydney.

The Langham brand entered New Zealand in January 2005 and has since invested more than NZ$14 million in their Symonds Street property. The Langham has gone against the current minimalist decor trend and instead created an elegant, opulent and somewhat theatrical environment offering guests an authentic five-star experience unique in New Zealand.

Visitor Accommodation is one of four major categories awarded by the Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand. Winning the award has been part of a rigorous eight month process for The Langham. This process has included providing information on the property’s leadership, strategic planning, innovation and business results.

“We are absolutely thrilled with this achievement. I have never come across such a rigorous process to establish a winner which in itself provides the awards a significant amount of credibility” said The Langham Hotel Auckland’s managing director Mr John Dick.

“I know that every one of our associates will be thrilled to receive this award in recognition of their efforts. I’m full of pride to have such committed and loyal staff that are dedicated to making this property shine. We have worked extremely hard to provide our guests with a beautiful and elegant setting but it is our team that will exceed our guest’s expectations,” he continued.

The Langham Hotel Auckland is a full-service, five-star, 410 room property with seven different room and suite categories. It is one of only two New Zealand ‘Leading Hotels of the World’, an association representing the world’s finest five-star hotels. The Hotel also features five restaurants and lounges including Partingtons (the current New Zealand Restaurant of the Year, NZ Culinary Fare), a health club, heated outdoor pool, complimentary inner-city shuttle and a luxury limousine fleet.

“Thank you must also go to the Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand for having established such an impressive and internationally recognised awards programme. We had extremely stiff competition which illustrates just how seriously the industry takes these awards. It is a true honour to be acknowledged,” concluded Mr Dick.

Other hotel finalists in the Visitor Accommodation category included last year’s winner Heritage Queenstown along with Hilton Auckland and The George in Christchurch.

Background Notes on The Langham:
Langham has a legendary hotel heritage dating back to 1865 when The Langham Hotel in London originally opened as Europe’s first Grand Hotel. For over 140 years, this flagship hotel has been at the forefront of sophisticated and gracious hospitality. Today, all Langham Hotels worldwide inherit the same philosophy that reflects elegance in design, innovation in hospitality, genuine service and captivation of the senses creating a truly unique hotel experience.

Langham Hotels International (LHI) features six properties with over 2,700 rooms in five gateway cities across four continents, namely in London, Boston, Hong Kong (2), Melbourne and Auckland.

LHI is wholly owned by Great Eagle Holdings Limited, a publicly listed company (HKSE: 41) which was founded in 1963 and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972.

For information on The Langham Hotel Auckland, please visit www.langhamhotels.com/langham/auckland/

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The Langham Hotel Auckland exterior

The Langham Hotel Auckland lobby

The Langham Hotel Auckland Executive Suite

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