The red carpet was rolled out at the 'World Ski Awards' in the legendary winter sports destination of Kitzbühel, Austria. The ceremony took place on the 16th November within the glamorous setting of the 'A-ROSA Hotel & Resort'. The awards are the first ever global initiative to celebrate and reward excellence in the ski hospitality industry.

Mr Bongkil Ko, Deputy Director and Ramy Salameh, PR Manager of the Korea Tourism Organisation (London office),  had the honour of picking-up the awards for 'South Korea's Best Ski Resort', which went to 'YongPyong', and 'South Korea's Best Ski Hotel' whose recipient was 'Alpensia Pyeongchang Resort'.

The 'World Ski Awards Gala Ceremony' was the perfect platform to remind attendees that Korea will host the '2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang' and network with the global ski travel community. Guests came from all over the world including Australia and South America for this inaugural event that will surely become an annual fixture within the tourism industry calendar.

World Ski Awards is the sister organisation of World Travel Awards, which is heralded as "the Oscars of the travel industry" and who honoured Korea last year as 'Asia's Leading Sports Tourism Destination 2012'. So to accept these further awards in 2013 is another clear example of the diversity of Korea's tourism offering to the global traveller.

Just shy of a million votes were submitted by professionals working in the ski industry - senior executives, travel buyers, tour operators, agents and media and by ski tourism consumers to select their favourite ski resorts, hotels and chalets from the published shortlist of finalists from the top 20 ski nations.

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For further information please contact:
Ramy Salameh
Tel: 020 7321 2535
Email: london@gokorea.co.uk