Virtuoso announces the winner of Best of the Best hotel awards 2015

Virtuoso surveyed 370 agencies and more than 9,800 elite travel advisors to decide the Best of the Best winners in ten categories, from the Best Culinary Experience to Hotel of the Year. With a portfolio of nearly 1,100 hotels, resorts, villas and private island retreats in more than 100 countries, Virtuoso Hotels & Resorts is considered one of the industry's most prestigious hotel programs. Founded in 1992, the program is also luxury travel's longest-running, with more five-star properties than any other.

, senior vice president of Global Product Partnerships for Virtuoso, said: ”When your competitive set includes the greatest hotels in the world, being named the best within your given category is truly a feat, and we are honored to recognize these 11 winners as both exceptional standouts as well as incredible partners to the Virtuoso network. Virtuoso travel advisors have exacting standards for their clients and to declare these hotels as the Best of the Best means each epitomizes the highest level of luxury hospitality. Their achievements showcase the very hallmark of this network-creating lifelong memories and enriching human connections through travel." The Best of the Best winners were revealed during the Hotels & Resorts Dinner in Las Vegas. The categories and winners are:

• Hotel of the Year

• : Ashford Castle, County Mayo, Galway, Ireland

• Hotelier of the Year

• : Antonio Sersale, Le Sirenuse, Positano, Italy

• Best Achievement in Design

• : The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto, Japan

• Best Culinary Experience

• : Epicure, Le Bristol Paris, France

• Best Family Program

• : Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, USA

• Best Spa

• : Dolder Grand Spa, The Dolder Grand, Zurich, Switzerland

• Most Innovative Guest Experience

• (tie): Corcovado Experience, Belmond Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Red Carpet Ready, The Peninsula Beverly Hills, California, USA

• Sustainable Tourism Leadership - Hotels

• : The Brando, French Polynesia

• One to Watch

• : Rosewood Beijing, China.