Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has — yet again — established its unrivalled dominance as the world’s most-popular and best-sold unique vacation planner and builder of the best luxury hotels in the Caribbean over the last four-and-a-half decades, winning the most awards in the 2024 edition of the world’s most-prestigious international travel industry awards system.
World Travel Awards (WTA) earlier this week revealed its 2024 Caribbean and The Americas winners – and Saint Lucia and St. Vincent & The Grenadines are among the top Caribbean winners.
Sandals Grande Saint Lucian won two awards this year — Caribbean’s Leading Honeymoon Resort 2024 and St Lucia’s Leading All-Inclusive Resort 2024, while Saint Lucia’s Fond Doux Eco Resort added to the island’s regular wins, again bagging the title of ‘Caribbean’s Leading Green Resort’.
St. Vincent & The Grenadines (SVG) — where Sandals’ latest property, Sandals SVG was launched last March as the latest in SRI’s ‘Sandals 2.0’ branding — was named ‘Caribbean’s Leading Nature Destination’.
Its relentless drive for excellence also helped SRI lift the WTA title of ‘Caribbean’s Leading Hotel Brand’, with Sandals SVG collecting ‘Caribbean’s Leading New Resort’
Headline victors also included Jamaica, which was voted ‘Caribbean’s Leading Destination’, as well as ‘Caribbean’s Leading Cruise Destination’ and ‘Caribbean’s Leading Tourist Board’.
Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) saw-off strong competition to win ‘Caribbean’s Leading Beach Destination’, while The Bahamas took the title of ‘Caribbean’s Leading Luxury Island Destination’.
SRI’s Beaches Turks & Caicos (TCI) was voted ‘Caribbean’s Leading All-Inclusive Family Resort’.
The Caribbean’s – and the world’s — leading luxury hotel resort brand again established its international dominance by continuing its near-quarter century of annual WTA wins, this year capping the most (14) wins in the Caribbean, where SRI owns and operates 24 properties under its Sandals and Beaches brands, on nine islands, employing over 20,000 trained personnel.
Following are the 14 latest awards won by SRI:
• Caribbean’s Leading Hotel Brand 2024 – Sandals Resorts International SRI)
• Caribbean’s Leading Adventure Tour Operator 2024 – Island Routes
• Caribbean’s Leading All-Inclusive Family Resort 2024 – Beaches Turks & Caicos
• Caribbean’s Leading Honeymoon Resort 2024 – Sandals Grande Saint Lucian, Saint Lucia
• Caribbean’s Leading New Resort 2024 – Sandals Saint Vincent & The Grenadines
• Caribbean’s Leading Resort 2024 – Sandals Royal Barbados
• Caribbean’s Most Romantic Resort 2024 – Sandals Grande Antiguan
• Bahamas’ Leading All-Inclusive Resort 2024 – Sandals Royal Bahamian
• Curaçao’s Leading All-Inclusive Resort 2024 – Sandals Royal Curaçao
• Grenada’s Leading Resort 2024 – Sandals Grenada
• Jamaica’s Leading All-Inclusive Family Resort 2024 – Beaches Negril
• Jamaica’s Leading Resort 2024 – Sandals Montego Bay
• Saint Lucia’s Leading All-Inclusive Resort 2024 – Sandals Grande Saint Lucian
• Saint Vincent & the Grenadines’ Leading All-Inclusive Resort 2024 – Sandals Saint Vincent & The Grenadines
Meanwhile, Graham Cooke, WTA’s Founder, says: “Our winners represent the very best in travel and tourism from across the Caribbean and Americas, and my congratulations to each and every one of them. They are all playing starring roles in driving the regions to even greater heights.”
The announcement of the winners comes as part of WTA’s Grand Tour 2024 — a global search for the finest travel and tourism organisations, covering six continents, with upcoming Gala Ceremonies in Manila (Philippines) and Diani Beach, in Kenya.