Through this prestigious awards program, Historic Hotels Worldwide® honors and celebrates the most exemplary historic hotels, hoteliers, and leadership practices with awards categories including Historic Hotels Worldwide Best Historic Resort, Historic Hotels Worldwide Sustainability Champion, and Historic Hotels Worldwide Historic Hotelier of the Year. This year's Nominee Finalists, listed below, have demonstrated innovative leadership, stewardship, and contribution to furthering the recognition, preservation, and celebration of these preeminent historic hotels and their histories.
The Historic Hotels Worldwide® Awards of Excellence will be announced on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at the 2024 Historic Hotels Awards of Excellence Ceremony & Gala, in front of an audience of owners, general managers, senior decision-makers, and guests representing many of the finest historic hotels from around the world. The 2024 Historic Hotels Awards of Excellence Ceremony & Gala will take place at The Omni Homestead Resort (1766) in Hot Springs, Virginia, USA. The Omni Homestead Resort was inducted into Historic Hotels of America® as a Charter Member in 1989 and was designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. It is an iconic year-round resort nestled in the scenic Allegheny Mountains that has welcomed guests for more than 250 years.
Nominee Finalists were selected from nominations received from historic hotels, preservation supporters, prior award recipients, community leaders, and leadership from Historic Hotels Worldwide. Led by preservationists, historians, and hospitality veterans, Historic Hotels Worldwide provides the recognition to travelers, civic leaders, and the global cultural, heritage, and historic travel market that member hotels are among the finest historic hotels from around the world.
About Historic Hotels Worldwide®
Historic Hotels Worldwide® is a prestigious and distinctive collection of historic treasures, including luxury historic hotels built in former castles, chateaus, palaces, academies, haciendas, villas, monasteries, and other historic lodging spanning ten centuries. Historic Hotels Worldwide represents the finest and most distinctive global collection of more than 320 historic hotels in 49 countries.
Hotels inducted into Historic Hotels Worldwide are authentic historic treasures, demonstrate historic preservation, and celebrate historic significance. Eligibility for induction into Historic Hotels Worldwide is limited to those distinctive historic hotels that adhere to the following criteria: minimum age for the building is 75 years or older; historically relevant as a significant location within a historic district, historically significant landmark, place of a historic event, former home of a famous person, or historic city center; hotel celebrates its history by showcasing memorabilia, artwork, photography, and other examples of its historic significance; recognized by national preservation or heritage buildings organization or located within UNESCO World Heritage Site; and presently used as a historic hotel.
From more than 500 nominations received, the Historic Hotels Worldwide and Historic Hotels of America awards committee evaluated and, after careful consideration, selected the 2024 Historic Hotels Worldwide Annual Awards of Excellence Nominee Finalists Amonst these included.
Historic Hotels Worldwide New Member of the Year
The Editory Riverside – Santa Apolónia (1865) Lisbon, Portugal
The Bentley London (1880) London, England, United Kingdom
Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten (1897) Hamburg, Germany
STØTT Top of Helgeland (1897) Støtt, Norway
Historic Hotels Worldwide Sustainability Champion
The K Club (1832) Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland
Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa (1852) St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
Sofitel Paris Baltimore Tour Eiffel (1892) Paris, France
Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu (1899) Charlevoix, Québec, Canada
Best Historic Hotels Worldwide Best Historic Resort
Dromoland Castle (1014) Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland
Hôtel Golf Château de Chailly (16th century) Chailly-sur-Armançon, France
Erinvale Estate Hotel & Spa (1660s) Somerset West, South Africa
Kviknes Hotel (1752) Balestrand, Norway
Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar (1780) Bataan, Philippines
Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, A Fairmont Managed Hotel (1885) Hamilton, Bermuda
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