"It is a remarkable achievement to receive such a valuable award," says General Manager Jean-Francois Laurent.
"I present this award to our staff who have shown an exemplary efforts and dedication during the last crucial time of opening our hotel."
World Travel Awards were launched to acknowledge and recognize excellence in the global travel and tourism industry.
The most important decision-makers in global travel and tourism attended the show, which was held in partnership with Qatar Tourism Authority.
Around 213,000 travel professionals including travel agencies, tour and transport companies and tourism organizations voted in more than 160 countries across the globe to select the winners.
The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh palatial interior, architectural design and landscaping together with the uncompromising legendary service and signature attention to detail provided by the staff has made it unique and created a marriage of style and sense of place within the Middle East.
The hotel is exquisite in every detail and boasts top events and leading summits in town in such a short period.
The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh joins nine other Ritz-Carlton hotels and resorts currently operating or under development in the Middle East: Bahrain, Dubai, Sharm El-Sheikh, Doha, Sharq Village & Spa, Dubai International Finance Centre, Muscat, Abu Dhabi and Nile Cairo (opening respectively in 2012 and 2013.)
