Anna Mandara & Spa in the southern Nha Trang city and Hoi An Riverside Resort in the central Quang Nam province have been listed among 500 best hotels in the world in 2006 by two prestigious US magazines Conde Nast Traveller and Travel + Leisure.
Their ranking is based on votes from 200,000 readers worldwide and criteria on infrastructure, location, quality of rooms, operation efficiency, services, and gastronomy.
The two new recognitions have brought the number of such hotels in Vietnam this year to three, an official from the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) said, adding that they will help raise the position as well as prestige of Vietnamese hotels.
Earlier, Sofitel Metropole Hanoi, one of the five-star hotels in the city has honorably received the prize.
The selection for the world's best hotels is annually held by the two world famous magazines, delivering entertaining travel reporting, quick access to destination facts and hot travel deals, Gilles Cretallaz, General Director of Sofitel Metropole Hanoi said.
According to the VNAT, Vietnam now has nearly 6,000 accommodation venues with 130,000 rooms and 2,600 one-to five-star hotels including 48 four-star hotels with 5,797 rooms, 116 three-star hotels with 8,330 rooms.
However, star-standardized hotels are allocated unequally. Twenty-four provinces and cities have three-star-hotels, 12 provinces have four-star-hotels and only five provinces and cities have five-star-hotels.
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