01.22.06
Abercrombie & Kent selected Best Luxury Tour Operator
Earlier this month, top luxury travel agency Abercrombie & Kent was named World’s Best Luxury Tour Operator and Best Africa Tour Operator by America’s top travel professionals at the recent Travel Weekly Readers Choice awards in New York. This comes just a month after the company was voted “World’s Leading Luxury Specialist Tour Operator” by travel professionals from 80,000 travel agencies in more than 200 countries at the World Travel Awards in London.
The “Readers Choice” Awards were established by Travel Weekly in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the travel industry and are considered to be one of the highest accolades a travel company can receive.
“To be acknowledged as the world’s best by America’s top travel professionals is truly a great honor,” said Geoffrey Kent, chairman and chief executive officer of the Abercrombie & Kent Group of Companies. “Our mission is to provide the very best in travel and we succeed because of our focus on the customer. Travel agents recognize that our worldwide network of 48 destination management companies enables us to set a higher standard and deliver authentic experiences.”
“On behalf of all of us at Intrawest, I would like to congratulate the A&K team for the high recognition received from the top travel professionals across North America,” said Joe Houssian, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Intrawest Corporation. “Abercrombie & Kent is an impressive operation and we are starting to realize the benefits of bringing our companies together in a strategic partnership. We will leverage our leadership position in the destination resort and luxury travel industries to build on the impressive growth of this business.”
