Accor brands and hotels has announced it achieved more than 1,500 notable awards and accolades throughout 2020. The Group’s brands and hotels made their way to top spots on some of the world’s most coveted lists and rating systems including Conde Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards, Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards and Forbes Travel Guide Star Awards.
On a Group level, Accor, ALL and several other corporate entities garnered over 45 honours ranging from 7 Freddie Awards for ALL, Hotel Group of the Year by Grand Hotels in China and one of the Best Big Companies to Work for by Fortune Magazine.
Accor’s luxury and premium brands collected nearly 1,300 awards in several categories around the world. Sofitel Legend earned the #14 spot on Travel + Leisure’s Top 25 Hotel Brands and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts’ Bee Sustainable program was named one of the Best Eco Initiatives in Hospitality by Departures Magazine.
Accor’s hotels received 8 five-star ratings on Forbes Travel Guide including triple threat Fairmont Grand Del Mar and The Savoy; Town & Country named Raffles Maldives Meradhoo and Raffles Europejski Warsaw in Best New Hotels of the World category and Conde Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards included Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena, Sofitel Bogota Victoria Regia and Raffles Istanbul among the 50 Best Hotels in the World.
Several midscale and economy hotels also received great praise from TripAdvisor’s 2020 Traveler’s Choice Awards where a number of Novotel and Mercure properties earned top spots including Mercure Yokusuka and Novotel Fujairah. U.S. News & World Travel Report honored Novotel Istanbul Bosphorus with Silver in Best Hotels of 2020 and The British Travel Awards named ibis the Best Eco Hotel Brand.