Thanda Private Game Reserve handed Luxury Travel Award

Thanda Private Game Reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa has been awarded “luxury individual hotel, lodge or resort offering best overall product and service” in the Selling Long Haul Awards for 2007.

The award presentation was made by BMI Publications’ Managing Director Martin Steady at this year’s World Travel Market in London on Wednesday 14 November 2007.

Thanda’s Marketing Director Anita Vernes commented from London, “Thanda Private Game Reserve has been the proud recipient of many consumer-driven awards. This particular award is of huge value to us as it is indicative of the great support we have had from the trade over the last three years.”

Other nominees in the “luxury individual lodge, hotel or resort offering best overall product and service” category included Rayavadee (Thailand), Burj Al Arab (Dubai), Anse Chastanet (St Lucia) and Half Moon (Jamaica). This year the nominations for each category were proffered by a cross-section of Selling Long Haul readers. Travel agents, tour operators and reservations staff were asked to select the products they felt offer the best service and the suppliers they recommend most often to their clients.

Category winners were selected by the Selling Long Haul readership and the awards were dedicated entirely to long haul destinations and tourism products. Thanda Private Game Reserve strives to transcend international standards of excellence and is honoured to have received this award alongside some of the world’s best hotels and holiday destinations.

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