Belize captures the prestigious World Travel Awards for 2015.

At the 22nd Annual World Travel Awards held in Bogota Colombia over the weekend, Belize captured two of the prestigious World Travel Awards 2015 in categories for Mexico & Central America’s Leading Beach Destination 2015 – Placencia and Mexico & Central America’s Leading Destination 2015 – Ambergris Caye.

World Travel Awards™ was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry. Today, the World Travel Awards™ brand is recognized globally as the ultimate hallmark of quality, with winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire. Each year World Travel Awards™ covers the globe with a series of regional gala ceremonies staged to recognize and celebrate individual and collective successes within each key geographical region.
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White sandy beach at the Hopkins Bay Resort
Nominees were selected during a six months period by the World Travel Awards advisory committee, which consists of more than 2,700 media titles and influential tourism figureheads. The short-list was then published and the global industry, as well as travel consumers, were asked to vote for whom they deemed were the best in each category.
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Birds eye view of Placencia Peninsula, Belize

The Belize Tourism Board (BTB) in a release issued on October 11th, 2015, expressed that they were extremely proud and excited to announce that for the first time in the 22 years history of the World Travel Awards, Belize has won the two biggest Travel Oscars for the Continent.
  • Mexico & Central America’s Leading Beach Destination 2015 is Placencia!
  • Mexico & Central America’s Leading Destination 2015 is Ambergris Caye!
  • Mexico & Central America’s Leading Boutique Resort 2015 is Ka’ana Resort!
In addition, Belize also won in these other categories:
  • Belize’s Leading Hotel – Victoria House
  • Belize’s Leading Resort – El Secreto
  • Belize’s Leading Spa Resort – Cayo Espanto
  • Belize’s Leading Villa Resort – Hopkins Bay
Mr. Einer Gomez, Vice Chairman of the BTB’s Board of Directors, accompanied by his wife attended to accept the awards. Mr. Gomez accepted the award for Leading Destination and stated,
And most importantly, thank you to the people of Belize, and all the stakeholders, who commit themselves day-in-and-day-out to providing quality customer service, and for welcoming travelers into our country with open arms. Your hard work and dedication to sharing Belize with the world has clearly not gone unnoticed.
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Vice Chairman of the Belize Tourism Board, Mr. Einer Gomez at the World Travel Awards
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