(SINGAPORE, 11 JULY 2018) Raffles Hotel Singapore is pleased to announce that it has been ranked #1 in the Top Singapore City Hotels category in the 2018 Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards, honouring the top travel destinations and companies around the globe as rated by its readers. The iconic landmark hotel in Singapore also ranked 9th in the Top 10 Asia City Hotels category, and 75th in the Top 100 Hotels Overall category. These accolades come as a timely nod to the hotel's legendary service and charming experience, even as the hotel embarked on its current restoration programme for a planned reopening at the end of 2018.

Now in its 23rd year, the annual World's Best Awards recognises the world's top destinations, hotels and resorts, spas, tour operators and safari outfitters, airlines, airports, cruise lines and rental-car companies for their remarkable rooms, facilities, food, service, value and locations based on millions of reviews and opinions collected in a single year from Travel+Leisure travellers worldwide. Details of the The World's Best Awards 2018 can be found here: www.travelandleisure.com/worlds-best

“Being recognised as the #1 Hotel in Singapore is extremely significant in this special year for Raffles Hotel Singapore as we embark on a new chapter in our illustrious history with our current restoration. The continued support from Travel + Leisure readers and our guests is incredibly heartwarming and is a true testament to the Raffles promise - sincere and bespoke service right from the heart,” said Christian Westbeld, General Manager, Raffles Hotel Singapore.

“It is our honour to be awarded this recognition from Travel + Leisure and especially for our colleagues, this is a strong motivation to continue delivering the renowned Raffles experience. We look forward to welcoming our guests when this Singapore icon reopens and present Singapore and the world with a restored 19th century lifestyle destination that is designed to make Raffles Hotel Singapore the place to meet, spend time, shop and celebrate,” added Christian.

Raffles Hotel Singapore is currently closed for the third and final phase of its restoration, with a planned reopening at the end of 2018. During the closure of the hotel, the Raffles Gift Shop and pop-up Long Bar has moved to a temporary location at 3 Seah Street and will remain open throughout the restoration.

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Jane Corbett-Jones

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Jesmine Hall

Director of Marketing Communications Raffles Singapore
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Leenu Tarani

Senior Marketing Communications Manager Raffles Singapore
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Email: Leenu.Tarani@raffles.com

ABOUT RAFFLES HOTEL SINGAPORE: Opened in 1887, Raffles Hotel Singapore is one of the few remaining great 19th century hotels in the world. Till today, its architecture is perfectly preserved both inside and out, giving it an intoxicating blend of luxury, history and classic colonial design. Within its walls are more than a hundred expansive suites, framed by polished teak verandas and white marble colonnades, clustered around lush tropical gardens. Each is serviced by the legendary Raffles butlers and offers every modern convenience necessary.

Raffles Hotel Singapore is currently undergoing a careful and sensitive restoration that is being carried out in three phases. The hotel is now fully closed with a grand reopening planned in the end of 2018. The Raffles Gift Shop continues to be in operation at its temporary location on 3 Seah Street, around the corner from the hotel.

The restoration of Raffles Hotel Singapore is designed to ensure that we retain what is so special about Raffles – the ambience, the service, the charm and the heritage of the hotel. It is also designed for Raffles Singapore to stay relevant and distinctive by moving with the times and with its guests and adapting to the changing needs of the well-travelled and Singapore's community. For more information on our restoration, please visit www.rafflessingapore.com

ABOUT RAFFLES HOTELS & RESORTS: Raffles Hotels & Resorts boasts an illustrious history and some of the most prestigious hotel addresses worldwide. In 1887, Raffles Singapore set the standard for luxury hospitality, introducing the world to private butlers, the Singapore Sling and its enduring, legendary service. Today, Raffles continues this tradition in leading cities and lavish resort locales, enchanting travellers with meaningful experiences and service that is both gracious and intuitive. Connoisseurs of life choose Raffles, not merely for its aura of culture, beauty and gentility, but for the extraordinary way they feel when in residence with Raffles. Each Raffles, be it Paris, Istanbul, Warsaw, Jakarta or the Seychelles, serves as a venerated oasis where travellers arrive as guests, leave as friends and return as family. Raffles is part of AccorHotels, a world-leading travel and lifestyle group which invites travellers to feel welcome at more than 4,200 hotels, resorts and residences, along with some 10,000 of the finest private homes around the globe.

ABOUT TRAVEL + LEISURE: Travel + Leisure is the preeminent voice for the sophisticated traveler, serving up expert intelligence and the most immersive, inspiring travel lifestyle content anywhere. Travel + Leisure captures the joy of discovering the pleasures the world has to offer—from art and design to shopping and style to food and drink—and offers compelling reasons to get up and go. With a total global audience of more than 15 million, the Travel + Leisure portfolio includes the U.S. flagship and four international editions in China, India, Mexico, and Southeast Asia. The U.S. edition of T+L, which launched in 1971, is the only monthly consumer travel magazine in print in the U.S., has an authoritative website, www.TravelandLeisure.com and an extensivesocialmedia following of more than 13 million. Travel + Leisure also encompasses newsletters and media collaborations.

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