Two five-star Corinthia Hotels - the Corinthia Palace Hotel & Spa in Malta and the Corinthia Hotel St Petersburg in Russia, have won the titles of ‘Malta’s Leading Hotel’ and ‘Europe’s Leading Meetings and Conference Hotel’ respectively, at the World Travel Awards European regional ceremony held in Antalya, Turkey.

This is the second year in a row that the Corinthia Palace Hotel and Spa laid claim to this World Travel Awards title. For the Corinthia Hotel St Petersburg, this is the second major accolade in the space of two weeks, having just been declared ‘Best Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Events (MICE) Hotel in St Petersburg’ at the Russian Business Travel & MICE awards.

The World Travel Awards were launched in 1993 to acknowledge and recognise excellence in the world’s travel and tourism industry. They are regarded as the very highest achievement a travel product could ever hope to receive.

Votes are cast by 183,000 travel professionals, which include travel agencies, tour and transport companies and tourism organisations in over 160 countries across the globe. Votes are cast globally by fellow industry professionals in over 1,000 different categories. Attended by senior executives from major travel companies, operators and destinations, WTA events are universally respected as providing established, top-level networking opportunities, regionally and globally.