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from June 2021

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Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin recently won the 2021 Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best award for hotels, for the 11th consecutive year.

The latest Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best winners are decided based on the quality and quantity of reviews and ratings from global travellers posted on TripAdvisor for the whole of 2020.

An elegant sanctuary with old-world charm, Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin began as The Railway Hotel back in the early 1920s. When the railway line from Hua Hin to Padang Besar in Malaysia was built, Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin opened its doors and transformed the sleeping fishing village of Hua Hin into a stylish seaside escape.

Gleaming with colonial accents, the beautifully preserved hotel is one of the most famous heritage hotels in Asia. In addition to its prime town centre location ideal for exploring and shopping, Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin also offers excellent recreational facilities and services, including 4 swimming pools, 2 tennis courts, kids club, putting greens, a snooker room and many more all guaranteeing a perfect destination for travellers of all ages. Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin joins 35 other Centara hotels and resorts that also received the 2021 Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best award for hotels, representing an overwhelming 90% majority of Centara’s entire portfolio and reaffirming its reputation as Thailand’s leading hotel operator.

ENGLAND’S HISTORIC CITIES CONTRIBUTE £8 BILLION TO VISITOR ECONOMY!

Figures from England’s Historic Cities, a partnership that brings together England’s premier heritage locations to maximise the potential of their visitor economies, show a total of UK£8 billion was generated by tourism and leisure businesses from the heritage cities within the partnership in 2019 an increase of over 25% from 2018.

Overall visitor numbers increased by 12.4% from the previous year to 118 million, supporting the equivalent of nearly 83,000 full time jobs in the sector, and over 11 million visitors stayed in England’s Historic cities as part of a holiday or short break generating a total economic impact of UK£2.31 billion – an increase of 12.8% from 2018.

Melanie Sensicle, chair of England’s Historic Cities said: “Whilst this data was obtained pre-pandemic and the upward positive trends obviously did not continue into 2020, the figures show the phenomenal potential of our heritage destinations and highlight the significant value of their contribution to the visitor economy and as well as the capacity they have to increase regional spread of visitors.

This summer we are launching our new cross-marketing plan which will see the cities promoting each other to the domestic consumer for the first time. We want to encourage people to visit our cities safely and believe that collaborate marketing can contribute to the recovery of our businesses in 2021.”