Luxury hotel and resort management company GHM is proud to announce that two of its properties, The Nam Hai and The Chedi Chiang Mai, have been awarded with accolades from prestigious hospitality organisation The Leading Hotels of the World in their annual awards.

Vietnam's multi award-winning 5-star resort The Nam Hai was one of only three out of 500 Leading Hotels of the World to be honoured with a 2010 Commitment to Excellence Award acknowledged for its exceptional efforts to exert a positive impact on the world in the area of community outreach.

The resort launched The Sympathetic Hearts charity fund in 2009 to bring support to the local community, with a special focus on helping disadvantaged children attend school.

Various projects have taken place through the fund including a scholarship programme that paid for school tuition and expenses for 57 local children, essay writing competitions with the chance to win dining vouchers at The Nam Hai or the opportunity to 'Be part of the Nam Hai Staff for the Day', to learn about day-to-day resort operations.

Additional activities included donating blankets and food following the devastation of Typhoon Ketsana, presenting gifts of basic necessities such as rice, noodles and laundry detergent to local families during Tet Lunar New Year in 2010 and organising a beach clean up on World Environment Day.

Current and future projects also include university scholarships for five talented local students, food donations to a local orphanage and handicapped centre sponsored by Tetra-Pak Japan and regular medical missions.

The Chedi Chiang Mai meanwhile was one of only two properties in Asia Pacific and 10 worldwide to receive a Commitment to Quality accolade. This award recognises those properties which achieved the highest Leading Quality Assurance scores during the period from July 2009 to June 2010.

The LQA scores are based on a unique and detailed quality assurance audit that takes place anonymously at member hotels and measures over 1,200 standards in 28 departments.

"The Leading Hotels of the World is well known for its very stringent system of quality control checks on its hotels so this award really shows that the hotel operates to a very high standard," said GHM President & Director Hans Jenni.

GHM has an unrivalled reputation for conceptualising, developing and operating a unique collection of exclusive and stylish hotels and resorts worldwide and as a result is no stranger to receiving celebrated awards and accolades from around the world. The Nam Hai has received recognition from Cond� Nast Traveller UK & USA, Travel + Leisure USA, Asia Spa, Frommer's and Gourmet Traveller in recent years whilst The Chedi Chiang Mai has been applauded by Cond� Nast Traveler USA, Thailand Tatler, TTG Asia and Honeymoon + Travel.

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About GHM Established in 1992, GHM (General Hotel Management) is a market leader in conceptualising, developing and operating an exclusive group of hotels and resorts worldwide. With its expansive portfolio and several more in the pipeline, GHM prides itself in providing guests with a distinctive lifestyle experience that is unrivalled.

Each GHM resort and hotel is one of a kind, possessing distinctive concepts and design elements. The signature GHM style is best defined through "Asian-inspired designs with delicate details".

GHM's portfolio of properties includes: * The Setai South Beach, Miami, USA * The Datai Langkawi, Malaysia * The Legian Bali, Indonesia * The Club at The Legian Bali, Indonesia * The Nam Hai Hoi An, Vietnam * The Strand Yangon, Myanmar * The Ananti Kumgang Mountains, North Korea * The Ananti Club Seoul, South Korea * The Chedi Club Tanah Gajah Ubud, Bali, Indonesia * The Chedi Muscat, Oman * The Chedi Chiang Mai, Thailand

GHM properties currently under development include the following hotels and resorts worldwide: * The Malkai Barka, Oman * The Chedi Club Cairo, Egypt * The Chedi Amman, Jordan * The Chedi Andermatt, Switzerland * The Chedi Tamouda Bay, Morocco * The Chedi Taiping Lake, China * The Chedi Club Suzhou, China * The Chedi Club & Residences Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The company also provides a full range of hotel management services. For more information please visit GHMhotels.com

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Luci Pickett or Cecilia Chan Grebstad Hicks Communications Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2810 0532 Fax: (852) 2525 7972 Email: luci.pickett@ghcasia.com / cecilia.chan@ghcasia.com