Triple Recognition For Tune Hotels

TRIPLE RECOGNITION FOR TUNE HOTELS
Penang, Hat Yai and Bali hotels come out tops

Tune Hotels continues its winning streak in the New Year of the Dragon by earning recognitions for its hotels in Penang, Malaysia; Hat Yai, Thailand; and Bali, Indonesia.

The world’s largest travel website TripAdvisor, in its Travelers’ Choice Awards 2012, has ranked Tune Hotel Downtown Penang as among the Top 25 Bargain Hotels in Malaysia, alongside globally-renowned brands like Shangri-La, Hilton, Sheraton and Traders, among others. The rating was based on reviews by travellers who have stayed at those hotels.

On top of that, Trip Advisor also ranked Tune Hotel Hat Yai that was just opened in December as the number one hotel in the city.

Meanwhile Tune Hotel Double Six in Legian, Bali was awarded The Best Hotel & Service Excellence of the Year by the Indonesian Quality and Service Excellence Tourism Awards during a ceremony in Bali recently. Winners of the award will be in the running for the annual “Indonesia Top 100 Awards” that will be announced in Jakarta in December 2012. The Awards is supported by the Indonesian Government and the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Mark Lankester, Group CEO of Tune Hotels said: “This is really a triple joy for Tune Hotels. To be rated among 25 best bargain hotels in Malaysia is a real honour for us, not to mention the league of top-rated hotels that we’re grouped together with. This is just what Tune Hotels is all about – giving you great value, great savings.”

“This is really awesome and we are truly proud. The award by TripAdvisor is an industry recognition and what’s more important is that it is based on feedback from our most important stakeholders – our guests. Tune Hotel Downtown Penang has set a very high standard that we will use as benchmark across the Tune Hotels network.”

Located at Jalan Burmah right in the heart of the UNESCO heritage city of George Town, the 222-room Tune Hotel Downtown Penang was opened on 1 April 2009 and is the largest among its existing hotels in the network.

Tune Hotel Downtown Penang is the second of its hotels to receive a significant award from TripAdvisor, after Tune Hotel Westminster in London that was awarded certificate of excellence last year, as a “result of consistently great feedback” from hotel guests.

“We are pleasantly surprised that in its current hotel reviews, Trip Advisor has also ranked the month-old Tune Hotel Hat Yai as the number one hotel in the Southern Thailand city. This is such a fantastic achievement,” he added.

On the award for Tune Hotel Double Six Legian, Mark said: “The Indonesian accolade reinforces our position as among the top brands in the country and we hope to excel at the Indonesia Top 100 Awards later. Although we have only two hotels in Bali, our service standards and quality must have left a highly positive impact on many Indonesian guests and foreign travelers there.”

Tune Hotels was last year ranked ninth among the Top 20 Innovative Brands 2011 in Indonesia by MIX magazine, a leading marketing communications magazine. Tune Hotels was the only hotel brand on the list, alongside global leading brands such as BlackBerry, Tupperware, Nissan, 7-Eleven and Pizza Hut.

Kicking off Tune Hotels’ list of accolades for 2012 was the Most Promising Brand award that it received from the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation at the Brand Laureate – SMEs Best Brands Awards 2011 in Kuala Lumpur recently.

“We attribute all these achievements to our loyal and new guests who have embraced the accommodation concept and model pioneered by Tune Hotels, making it a global phenomenon. When we first started, we did not imagine that Tune Hotels would be such a successful brand that takes the world by storm.”

Tune Hotels has received over three million guests since the opening of its first hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2007. Tune Hotels currently operates 15 hotels in Malaysia, Indonesia, the UK and Thailand, with another 30 hotels scheduled for opening this year in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and the UK.

Tune Hotels has successfully pioneered a branded value hotel brand with the concept of pay-as-you-use that has become hugely popular amongst travelers from across the world. Under the concept, guests only pay for room rates with the option of adding on other amenities like towels & toiletries, air-conditioning, in-room wifi and satellite TV service at selected hotels.

Apart from enjoying great value, great savings at Tune Hotels, guests can also enhance their benefits and privileges by becoming a member of the BIG loyalty programme, of which Tune Hotels is a partner. BIG is a global loyalty programme that allows card members to accumulate points when travelling and shopping with BIG partners worldwide, and redeem the accumulated points for exciting rewards including flight seats on the world’s best low cost carrier, AirAsia. More information on BIG is available at www.tune2big.com.

Tune Hotels is part of Tune Group, a lifestyle business conglomerate co-founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun, who are the Group CEO and Deputy Group CEO respectively of Asia’s largest low cost carrier AirAsia.

For booking and further information, visit www.tunehotels.com.