JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa won the Top 25 Leisure Hotels & Resorts and the Top 25 Spa Hotels & Resorts in Asia from Smart Travel Asia Award “2008 Best in Travel Poll”. The resort has been a consistent recipient of the award listed in both 2006 and 2007 announced in October each year.

"We are delighted to be named once again in these most prestigious of awards as each year the competition is getting stronger and stronger. It was a fantastic accolade to be named of the Top 25 Leisure Hotels & Resorts and Top 25 Spa Hotels & Resorts in Asia at this year's awards." Said Thomas Christiansen, Resort Manager of JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa.

Smart Travel Asia is the region’s only dedicated online travel magazine with over one million readers worldwide. They offer review-based editorial to help people make the choices best for them. And this is what the SmartTravelAsia.com 2008 Best in Travel Poll
is all about, a distillation of Smart Travel Asia readers’ perceptions and favorite travel brands. Their vote is based on substantial hands-on travel experience, word-of-mouth at dinnertime chats, as well as an idea of the brand drawn from advertising and editorial exposure in the media, a great deal of this online.

For further information, please contact:
JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa
231 Moo 3, Mai Khao
Talang Phuket 83110
Tel: +66 (0) 76 338 000
Fax: +66 (0) 76 348 360
E-mail: bookmarriott@marriotthotels.com
Web site: www.jwmarriottphuket.com

Source: JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa release dated October 2008