Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has once more topped the Best Business Hotel Brand in Asia-Pacific category in the Business Traveller Asia-Pacific readers' poll.

In addition, the group's first hotel, the Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, which last year celebrated its 30th anniversary, was awarded the prestigious Best Individual Business Hotel in the World and the Best Individual Business Hotel in Asia-Pacific, whilst the Makati Shangri-La won the Best Business Hotel in Manila.

Conducted among the magazine's readership of frequent travellers based mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, the poll was distributed to a total of 9,885 subscribers. Results were compiled by market research company NFO WorldGroup – Hong Kong and will be published in the October 2002 issue of Business Traveller Asia-Pacific.

Princess Ubol Ratana Mahidol of Thailand presented the awards to the winners at a charity award luncheon in Hong Kong and nominated the Yuwaprasart Waithayopathum Child Psychiatric Hospital as her preferred charity.

Commenting on the awards, Peggy Teo, publisher of Business Traveller Asia-Pacific, said: ‘The subscribers of the magazine are among the most knowledgeable, experienced and committed travellers in the region. For Shangri-La to perform so outstandingly in the readers' poll two years running is a real tribute to excellence as well as remarkable consistency.'

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is the largest Asian-based luxury hotel group in the region with 38 properties and almost 20,000 rooms in mainland China, Fiji, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. During the next three years the group will be expanding further in China and Malaysia, and opening three new hotels in Dubai and Oman.