For this year's World Travel Awards, a sort of tourist Oscar, nominated in five categories is the same number of Crotian hotels.

Dubrovnik's Palace Hotel and Korčula's Lešić Dimitri Palace were nominated for the leading European hotels award, and The Palace, along with Split's Le Meridien Lav hotel is in the running for the award for the leading European conference hotel. The Palace will appear in the competition for Europe's leading resort, while the Le Meridien Lav, together with Dubrovnik's Rixon Libertas hotel is nominated for Europe's leading casino resort. Hvar's Adriana competes for the prize for Europe's leading boutique resort.

With the European World Travel Awards, a separate prize for the leading Croatian hotel will be awarded in which are competing The Dubrovnik Palace Hotel, The Excelsior, The Grand Villa Argentina, The Hilton Imperial, The Bellevue and The Rixos Libertas, then Opatija's Mozart, Split's Le Meridien Lav, Hvar's Adriana Hotel , Korčula's Lešić Dimitri Palace hotel, Rovinj's Istria and in Zagreb The Sheraton and The Regent Esplanade.

For the leading Croatian boutique hotel are competing The Design Hotel Astoria, The Kastil, Split's Vestibul Palace, Hvar's Hotel Riva and Dubrovnik's Pucic Palace and for the leading Croatian SPA resort The Palace Hotel, The Adriana, Hotel Ivan in Bol on Brač, The Milenij, Hotel Istra and Le Meridien Lav.

The Le Meridien brand is competing for the leading hotel brand in Europe, the city of Dubrovnik has been nominated as best European tourist destination and best cruise destination and the port of Split as one of the best ports for cruisers.

The voting for the World Travel Awards prizes, which has a 15-year tradition, will last until early August and the gala award ceremony itself will take place on October 1st in Antalya.  The number of nominations in several categories indicate that the Croatian tourism offer, as do its hotels, grow stronger and better from year to year.

Recognition from The World Travel Awards is regarded as one of the best recommendations for any tourism product and assessment is divided into eight geographical regions: Europe, Asia / Pacific, The Caribbean, Central and Latin America, Africa, The Middle East and North and South America, in order to objectively cover all aspects of this global industry that despite the current worldwide economic crisis continues to record a lesser decline in business than other industries.

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