With just over a year of operation in its history, Le Méridien Dhaka this week won the 2016 Today’s Traveller Award for “Best International Business Hotel in Bangladesh”. The award was presented by Shri Vinod Kumar Duggal, former Honourable Governor Manipur, Union Home Secretary, Member National Disaster Management Authority to Le Méridien Dhaka during the 10th Annual Today’s Traveller Awards held at the Taj Palace, New Delhi on 01 August 2016. The event was also presided over by Chief Guest Vijay Goel, Honourable Minister of State (IC), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.This long anticipated event also marked the Cover Launch ceremony of the Coffee Table Book 2016 Game Changers, denoting the theme on which winners were selected by the award jury.
Over 300 top-level management professionals from the Travel and Hospitality industry, as well as, heads of the corporate world attended the grand event.Chief Guest Vijay Goel, Honourable Minister of State (IC), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India joined the celebrations as he took to the stage to personally recognize the felicitated leaders for their achievements. Vijay Goel while congratulating the winners said,“Every award brings both joy and responsibility. The joy of being recognized and the responsibility of setting and maintaining new bench marks.”
Today’s Traveller Awards, one of the most respected awards in the travel industry, has always identified and recognized the achievements and accomplishments of progressive companies and leaders from the industry. The 10th Today’s Traveller Awards recognized Game Changers who have changed the rules of the hospitality and tourism industries in their respective nations.
The Today’s Traveller Award is the third global award received by the Le Méridien Dhaka in the past one year since the hotel soft launched in June 2015. Upon its grand opening in November, the hotel has in fact been nominated by three other international award programs and is currently also in the running for three categories in the 2016 World Luxury Hotel Awards, for which the hotel’s team has also expressed high hopes.
