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Hotel Copernicus has been ranked Poland’s leading hotel!
The 2008 World Travel Awards Ceremony took place at AquaCity, Poprad, Slovakia on Wednesday 15th October.
Winners from across the globe were recognized for their outstanding achievements at the action packed ceremony.
This year Hotel Copernicus has been ranked as the Poland’s leading hotel.
World Travel Awards was expressly launched with the aim of encouraging the international travel and tourism industry to embrace the pursuit of excellence.
There are 3 parts in the nominations process:
Step 1
Candidates for nomination are based upon the previous year’s voting. Winner and 4 qualifying runners up of the previous voting will automatically qualify into the following year’s nominations.
Step 2
The nomination is open for the self-nominations for any organisations who wish to enter.
Step 3
The nominations are then vetted and inspected by a group of industry experts. Issues such as customer relations to creativity, quality of service, standards, guest satisfaction, product innovation and business acumen.will be included in this review. The stringent process of vetting and qualifying takes place throughout the course of each year.
The nominations are decided in a timely manner, without bias or prejudice. All the nominations are announced at each year at ITB in Germany in the print and on the web.
Hotel Copernicus Hotel and restaurant in town Krakow was once the capital of Poland and it still has many impressive monuments from this period, such as the Royal Castle overlooking the Wawel Hill, where the country’s monarchs lived. Copernicus Hotel is located on Kanonicza, one of the city’s oldest streets. For centuries, this building was a part of the cathedral chapel and hosted the intellectual and financial elite of Krakow. It owes its name to the famous Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus, who was one of the guests of the house. Could it have been here that he developed his revolutionary theory that the Earth rotates around the Sun rather than the opposite? This is something to ponder whilst admiring the precious polychrome paintings and inscriptions dating from 1500 and, in the evening, the flaming sunsets that seem to set the city alight. ...Read more Poland, Krakow
Poland, Krakow 
