Royal Cliff Beach Resort wins Gold Key Award for Best Resort 1998

November 6, 1998 by Michael Swart
Filed under Awards

The Royal Cliff Beach Resort has again won the Gold Key Award for Best Resort from Meetings & Conventions Asia/Pacific. Read by more than 12,000 readers in 12 countries in the region, M&C Asia/Pacific is a bi-monthly publication for meeting and incentive planners.

Despite the region’s tough economic crisis, this year’s nominations for the M&C Gold Awards have consistently shown high standards of service, creativity, and commitment. The broad spectrum of the M&C Gold Awards covers all facets of the Meetings, Incentive, Conventions & Exhibitions (MICE) industry. The nominations were received by a cross-section of corporate end users and key industry players in the Asia/Pacific region and the selection of the winners for the “best performance” in all 16 categories were based on the following criteria: quality of product, standard of service, level of marketing and professionalism, and other attributes such as creativity and dedication.

Panga Vathanakul, Managing Director of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort receives the prestigious Gold Key Award from M&C Asia Pacific.

Receiving the award at the 1998 M&C Gold Awards Presentation Ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Mrs. Panga Vathanakul, Managing Director of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort, expressed her delight by saying, “We are very proud to have been honoured with the prestigious Gold Key Award for Best Resort. This award is very special to us because we are celebrating our 25th Anniversary this year. It stands as a testimony to our ongoing commitment of service excellence and our dedication to improve service standards. I would like to thank M&C Asia/Pacific as well as all our sponsors and clients for their recognition of our commitment and dedication, and of course the staff of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort who have made this award possible.”

The Royal Cliff Beach Resort has previously won the Gold Key Award for Best Resort in 1995 from M&C Asia Pacific as well as numerous other awards, including a record-breaking Best Resort Asia/Pacific for 8 consecutive years from PATA.

As one of Asia’s premier resorts, the Royal Cliff Beach Resort has long been the venue for many of the world’s top groups, meetings and incentives, playing host to major events such as the 1995 SITE University, the Universal Federation of Travel Agents Association (UFTAA) 30th World Congress and the 1996 PATA Travel Mart.

The Royal Cliff Beach Resort boasts a host of meeting facilities which include 2 ballrooms for up to 1,500 and 17 meeting rooms for 30 to 150. To complete its extensive range of meeting facilities, the resort is currently constructing an exhibition and convention hall built on 2 levels with an underground car park for over 400 cars and total meeting space of 4,950 m2. The main exhibition hall can accommodate as much as 5,800 theatre style and 2,800 for banquets, and can be divided into 3 smaller halls each ranging from 1,300 m2 - 1,600 m2. Scheduled for completion in October 1999, the Royal Exhibition And Convention Hall (PEACH) will take the Royal Cliff Beach Resort into the next century with the most comprehensive range of meeting facilities on the Eastern Seaboard, as well as being one of Thailand’s major conference and incentive venues.