Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts the best for 12th consecutive year

Regarded as one of the travel industry's most anticipated events, the Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Readers' Poll is held annually, surveying its readers mainly in Asia Pacific, both frequent business and leisure travellers.

Best in the world

For the 12th consecutive year, the title of Best Business Hotel in the World went to Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, and the title of Best Business Hotel in Manila went to Makati Shangri-La, Manila. Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong won Best Business Hotel in Asia Pacific and in Hong Kong Futian Shangri-La, Shenzhen and Pudong Shangri-La, East Shanghai each won the Best Business Hotel awards in their respective cities.

"We are honoured and delighted and we would like to sincerely thank our guests and the readers of Business Traveller for their support. We will continue to offer our distinct brand of hospitality from the heart to guests from all around the world," said Greg Dogan, president and chief executive officer of Shangri-La International.

The group has a substantial development pipeline with upcoming projects in mainland China, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Turkey and United Kingdom.