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Monday, January 26, 2009

Award winning Sukau





Sukau Rainforest Lodge Receives Two Nominations at the 15th World Travel Awards

Sukau Rainforest Lodge of Sabah, on Malaysian Borneo was recently nominated for two award categories at the 15th World Travel Awards in 2008. It is nominated as one of the nine World's Leading Eco-Lodges and one of Asia's 5 Leading Green Hotels. The voting involved 167,000 travel professionals worldwide with the aim to acknowledge, reward and celebrate the enormous achievements to be found in all sectors of the global travel industry.

World Travel Awards aim has been to encourage world-class competition, stimulate innovation and creativity as well as ensure that travellers receive exceptional value. Winners are judged on their ability, such as the ability to understand visitor needs and expectations; maximise business performance; value personnel; undertake enterprising product expansion and development; foster innovation and creativity as well as work together as a team externally and internally.

The 20 rooms award winning Sukau Rainforest Lodge www.sukau.com is located at the edge of the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, home to the endemic Borneo Pygmy elephants, eight species of Bornean hornbills and ten species of primates including orang utan, proboscis monkeys among others. Sukau Rainforest Lodge is managed by Borneo Eco Tours. www.borneoecotours.com

Read more at http://www.worldtravelawards.com/nominees2008-13