Pick of a Choice bunch

Thursday, 04 Sep, 2009 0

MELBOURNE – Hotels in Wodonga, Toowoomba, Melbourne and Paihia, New Zealand, were the big winners at Choice Hotels Australasia’s annual awards ceremony.

Claiming Franchisee of the Year titles in their respective brand categories were Wodonga’s Comfort Inn & Suites Blazing Stump; Toowoomba’s Quality Hotel Platinum International; Melbourne’s Clarion Suites Gateway (for the second successive year) and Paihia’s Edgewater Palms – Clarion Collection.

The winning hotels were selected from a short list of 30 CHA Gold Award winners across the group’s four brands – Comfort, Quality, Clarion and Clarion Collection.

CHA chief executive David Bayes said that next year’s awards would be increased to cover CHA’s new value-end Econo Lodge, launched this year with eight new properties.



 

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