The Leading Hotels of the World this year increase their fine selection to 10 new entries.

This includes two Italian properties: the Due Torri in Verona and the Regina Hotel Baglioni in Rome. In Northern Europe there is associated the hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen (Denmark). The new marker hotel in the Irish capital of Dublin's Docklands will open in April.

In Turkey, there are now two new Leading Hotels: the The Grand Taraby in Istanbul and the D-Hotel Maris on the Datca peninsula. Constance Lémuria resort is located on the Seychelles Island of Praslin and in the Maldives Leading welcomes the Constance Halaveli.

On Mauritius, the Constance Le Prince Maurice now belongs to the Leading network, the Taj hotel Taj Palace Marrakech was admitted in Morocco.

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Roland Wildberg is Travel Writer and Correspondent based in Berlin, Germany. He started as an Editor for the National daily 'Die Welt' (tourism section), later on switched to a freelanced career and nowadays mainly publishes on the Web. Observing the hospitality industry always has fascinated him as it looks like the perfect combination of sleeping and writing – work-live-balance as its best.

Roland also heads the annual 4Hoteliers ITB Berlin news micro-site journalist and video/photo teams for the 5th consecutive year.