Sofitel Metropole Hanoi Named Greatest Organization Hotel In Hanoi By Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Magazine
Sofitel Metropole Hanoi was awarded the city's best business hotel in 2007 by the readers of the prestigious Enterprise Traveller Asia Pacific magazine.

Organization Traveller Asia-Pacific is the major travel magazine for Asia Pacific organization travellers. Every year readers selected the premium hotel of every city in Asia. Leading priorities to elect hotels are area, area facilities, consumer service, technologies and food & beverage.

This award has even far more significance as the hotel is going to reopen the contemporary "Opera Wing" by the finish of 2007 to equip the iconic hotel with the highest engineering and most recent 21st century amenities.

The award presentation took location the 14th September 2007 in Hong Kong and hotel's common manager Gilles Cretallaz came to receive this award- picture to come.

"We are proud to attain this top position, which is resulted from the challenging function, the group spirit of our hotel's staff and of course our meticulous interest to keeping the highest feasible requirements of guest accommodation, comfort and individual service" - said Mr. Gilles Cretallaz, the General Manager (on the left on the image).

The Sofitel M?tropole Hanoi was distinguished by the prestigious Cond?Nast Traveler's Gold List.

The iconic hotel was also designated as 1 of the "500 Greatest Hotels in the World" and "Best 50 Hotels in Asia" according to the criteria of Travel+Leisure magazine.

Sofitel Metropole Hanoi
Created in 1901 in a pure colonial design in a Hanoi, which had turn into the capital of the Indochinese Union (Cochin China, Annam, Cambodia and Tonkin), until finally the end of the 1930's the M?tropole was 1 of the most refined and unique western palace hotels in the Far East.
Following Vietnamese independence in the 1950's, the new national government chose it as the hotel for official guests. Throughout and after the Vietnam war years the hotel grew to become a base of operations for journalists and diplomats. Restored, renovated and reopened in 1992 beneath the Sofitel brand following a partnership agreement signed with the Vietnamese government, the M?tropole has already recovered its identity and prestige.
From the moment it opened, the M?tropole speedily grew to become a meeting place for writers, artists and officials. The hotel's guest book consists of the signatures of Presidents of the United States, France and the Republic of Togo, Prince Albert of Monaco, the King of Malaysia, Prime Ministers of Australia, Japan, France and Canada, main organization delegations such as the Planet Presidents Organization and the Asia Leaders Forum, as properly as wonderful film stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Jane Fonda, Catherine Deneuve, Robert de Niro, Oliver Stone It was at the M?tropole Hanoi that the very British Graham Greene wrote component of his visionary novel "The Quiet American", which predicted the outcome of the confrontation among Uncle Sam and Uncle Ho That was in 1951, and the hotel has been perpetuating Greene's memory ever since.

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