On 19 July, The Hainan Airlines Group announced that the Tangla Hotel Tianjin, which is owned and managed by HNA Hospitality Group, was bestowed the ‘International Six Star Diamond Award’ by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences (AAHS). The hotel became the sixth in the world and the first in China’s mainland to receive the highest award of excellence in the global hospitality industry. Mr. Zhu Shanzhong, Deputy Director of National Tourism Bureau, Mr. Ren Xuefeng, Vice Mayor of Tianjin, Joseph D. Cinque, President of AAHS and Mr. Wang Jian, Chief Executive officer of Hainan Airlines Group attended the gala event.
The ‘International Six Star Diamond Award’ was established by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences in 1949 with its headquarters in New York. It is the highest honor bestowed by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences to the international services and is the most internationally recognized award; often likened as the ’Oscar’ of the service industry. The ‘International Six Star Diamond Award’ is the highest level in the ‘International Star Diamond Award’ certification, also known as the jewel in the crown. Tangla Hotel Tianjin joined an elite group of only five members across the globe. There are only two in Asia, including Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Tokyo and The Peninsula in Hong Kong; marking the Chinese national hotel brand recognition by the important international hospitality authority.
Tangla Hotel Tianjin is located on Nanjing Lu, Tianjin’s core business district. The hotel is the first ’selection of the Tangla luxury collection hotel’ built by the HNA Hospitality Group under the brand of Tangla Hotels & Resorts. This year, the HNA Hospitality Group launched the highest service standards in Executive Floors in a luxury hotel in Tianjin, which aims to provide the most authentic personalised services. Tangla Hotel Tianjin’s revolutionary dissolution of the Front Office, Housekeeping, Engineering and Food & Beverage departments of the traditional hotel sector setting, are replaced by a unique, new luxury hotel service culture - ’Tangla Ambassador’ which takes the Tangla brand the highest international standards in facilities, operation management and quality of service.
HNA Hospitality Group was founded in 1997. From that day on, it began its mission to ‘create the world class hotel brand for Chinese nation’. In 2008, HNA Hospitality Group created its own high-end international hotel brand - Tangla Hotels & Resorts. Based on extensive research and development of China’s long cultural etiquette, and combined with modern hotel sciences, the HNA Hospitality Group launched the first Tangla hotel in the heart of Chang’an Avenue in Beijing in 2009. The group has grown the Tangla brand internationally this year, with upcoming projects such as the soon to open Tangla hotels in New York, Brussels and other international central cities, promoting the Tangla brand in terms of scale and international level of development.
On 19 July, The Hainan Airlines Group announced that the Tangla Hotel Tianjin, which is owned and managed by HNA Hospitality Group, was bestowed the ‘International Six Star Diamond Award’ by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences (AAHS). The hotel became the sixth in the world and the first in China’s mainland to receive the highest award of excellence in the global hospitality industry. Mr. Zhu Shanzhong, Deputy Director of National Tourism Bureau, Mr. Ren Xuefeng, Vice Mayor of Tianjin, Joseph D. Cinque, President of AAHS and Mr. Wang Jian, Chief Executive officer of Hainan Airlines Group attended the gala event.
