Six Senses honored with a host of awards in the summer season

The summer award season has endowed Six Senses with gongs: HICAP Positive Community Impact, Tatler Spa Guide, LTI World’s Best Luxury Hotel Brand and rankings in the Condé Nast Traveler 2020 Readers' Choice Awards (as voted by the public).

Six Senses has been recently honored with a host of awards. First up, they scooped a Sustainable Hotel gong, awarded at the annual Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific – Asia’s largest and longest running hotel investment event. Six Senses Yao Noi won in the Positive Community Impact category. Here’s what HICAP said:

“The community on Yao Noi Island maintains traditional fishing practices, lacks potable (drinking) water and has been dependent on plastic bottled water. To address this, Six Senses expanded its Clean Water Project to the Island, providing free access to clean drinking water using onsite water filtration and glass bottling. Fifty percent of the revenue generated from the sale of the drinking water to resort guests goes directly to clean water projects, while the hotel sends its engineering team for the installations. The communities are encouraged to utilize the clean water systems by refilling their reusable water bottles at no cost. To date, the Clean Water Project is active in more than 32 locations, including 15 filtration and dispensing units on Yao Noi Island, improving 102,976 lives by providing access to clean drinking water. Assuming an average of 2 bottles per person per day means over 73 million plastic bottles are annually eliminated.”

Six Senses Yao Noi also features in the 2020 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards rankings, which is super special as it is voted for by the public!

On Wednesday September 30, Tatler hosted their annual Tatler Spa Awards during a special online ceremony, honoring Six Senses Bhutan as the winner of the “Fuel The Inner Flame” category. It is a tremendous accolade to not only be included in the guide, but to also win this award, which celebrates crème de la crème of spas.

“Happiness runs rife in this Himalayan retreat, where forests of pine, ancient rock formations and silent monasteries are to be found. But so do indigenous therapies, which capture the spirit of this architectural circuit: from hot stone baths to meditation and mentoring. (…) So where better to embark on a guided journey to inner joy?” said Mary Lussiana, writing for Tatler.

The concept of happiness being more important than a materialistic approach to life is woven into the fabric of Buddhism. However, it was the fourth King of Bhutan who led the way on how this could apply to the governance of a country when he coined the phrase and concept of Gross National Happiness.

Last but not least, Six Senses takes the top spot in the LTI World’s Best Luxury Hotel Brands for the first time in 2020. Luxury Travel Intelligence has taken the past 12 months to apply the perfect assessment process – a rigorously defined algorithm that measures the performance and values of luxury hotel brands. The algorithm includes 100+ touch points relevant to the luxury hotel sector.

Jan Crompton, Co-founder of LTI - Luxury Travel Intelligence, comments: “No other organization connects with the global luxury hotel industry as LTI does. We are out there 365 days a year, with our researchers engaging with everyone from CEO's of the brands we have rated to thousands of management, staff and guests. Primarily, this is all part of the process for creating our destination led reports for our members (affluent, discerning travelers) but it also allows us to utilize our findings to create this unique report. Every year the process starts again – the results from previous years have no bearing on the following year. This does inevitably lead to volatility in each year’s results (such as this year), but this is a dynamic sector and we want to reflect what is really happening out there.”

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