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The awards were announced at the Annual Business Traveler International Awards Conference in New York City on November 2. Jane Mackie, Vice President, Advertising and Promotions for Starwood, accepted the Latin America award on Sheraton`s behalf.
The survey results, calculated from more than a thousand reader responses, will be published in the January 2002 issue. In the poll, the readers voted in categories covering individual hotels and hotel chains, airlines, car rental companies, credit cards, web sites and technology companies.
Business Traveler`s readers are the bellwethers and opinion-leaders of the business travel industry, says Eva Leonard, editor-in-chief of Business Traveler. Spending on average two months away from home on business yearly, they are the experts who choose the winners and losers for Business Traveler`s annual reader survey awards. It is their honesty and cumulative globetrotting experience that makes Business Traveler`s reader awards singular in their integrity.
Our guests are looking for hotels that provide personal and caring service as well as the best standards of quality, said Osvaldo Librizzi, President, Starwood Latin America Division, who added, It was a pleasure for us to have been chosen the best-of-the-best by the international travelers and travel professionals worldwide.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 750 properties in more than 80 countries and 110,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. With internationally renowned brands, Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchiser of hotels and resorts including: St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, Four Points by Sheraton, W brands, as well as Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts.
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