Paragraph Resort & Spa Shekvetili Awarded 'Hotel of the Year' by Marriott Int'l

Marriott International has awarded Hotel Paragraph Resort & Spa, located in Georgia’s seaside resort Shekvetili, with the Top Franchise Hotels Award 2018. Paragraph has been selected among the best 300 hotels in Europe. The annual award ceremony was held on June 26 in London.

“On the behalf of the entire team, I can say that this is a great achievement for us and we are very proud of it," stated Morten Skumsrud, Vice President Operations Franchise Europe at Marriott International. "There are nearly 300 franchise hotels across Europe, and winning in this nomination indicates that the attitude of our team towards the hotel, its guests and the brands of Marriot of Autograph satisfies all the demands of the clientele and even exceeds the expectations due to Marriott network services and Georgian hospitality.”

According to the official results of 2018, Marriott International named Paragraph Resort & Spa Shekvetili the first amongst other European hotels of the Autograph Collection, nearly a year after the launch of the hotel. The given status was measured according to the customer-satisfaction index, within the scope of which, Paragraph maintains the leading position before hotels operating in London, Milan, Barcelona and other European cities.

The hotel, located in Shekvetili, is operated by Hotel Management Company Ltd, which was launched in 2015 and is the owner of the official franchise license of the Marriott International chain. The company supervises operation of the Autograph Collection brand hotels and has a permit  to manage other brands of the Marriott International chain across the rest of Georgia.

Paragraph Resort & Spa Shekvetili is the first yet very successful project in the portfolio of the Georgian Co-Investment Fund in the hospitality and real estate direction. The 220-room hotel integrates a 1600 sq.m aquarium, 115-meter long swimming pool built into the sea, children’s playgrounds, a winter garden, large-scale conference halls and restaurants. The total investment value of the project exceeds $100 million. In addition, Paragraph Resort & Spa Shekvetili is the first hotel on the Georgian market to operate with the Autograph Collection brand status of the Marriott chain. Two more hotels are scheduled to be launched in Tbilisi on Liberty (Freedom) Square and Tabori Hill, by 2020, which will operate with Marriott’s Autograph Collection and Luxury Collection brand status. Yet another hotel of the brand with a spacious conference hall, is to open in higher Sololaki by 2022.

Translated by Ketevan Kvaratskehliya