Released on = December 21, 2006, 2:55 am

Press Release Author = Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns & Resorts

Industry = Management

Press Release Summary = Golden Tulip Resort Fontana Nieuweschans is proud to
announce its third consecutive World Travel Award naming Golden Tulip Resort Fontana
Nieuweschans Netherlands\' Leading Spa Resort.

Press Release Body = Golden Tulip Resort Fontana Nieuweschans offers a complete
health spa centre with a 36 degrees C Thermal bath and many sauna facilities.
Several wellness and beauty treatments are offered in the massage studio, the
thalasso studio and at the beauty salon. A hairdresser and a fitness studio are also
available. The comfortable 4-star Golden Tulip Resort Fontana Nieuweschans offers 67
fully equipped rooms all with balcony or terrace and hotel guests can use a bathrobe
for free during their stay. The a la carte restaurant "Waters of the World" exhibits
the world's largest mineral water collection. A hotel cinema, a free coffee and tea
buffet and a cosy pub are present as well.
http://www.goldentulipresortfontananieuweschans.nl

Jos Keizer, General Manager of Golden Tulip Resort Fontana Nieuweschans comments:
"We are enormously proud to be recognized, three years consecutively, by our peers
and customers for the health and wellness facilities and services we offer.
Naturally we will do our utmost best to uphold and even excel this level of service
for our guests and to retain the title Netherlands' Leading Spa Resort in the
future."

Hans Kennedie, President & C.E.O. of Golden Tulip Hospitality adds: "I would like to
congratulate the Golden Tulip Resort Fontana Nieuweschans management and staff for
this fantastic recognition. This award recognizes excellence throughout the travel
and tourism sector and with this distinction I am convinced that we are on the right
track and that our products and services are acknowledged and appreciated all over
the world."

About World Travel Awards
www.worldtravelawards.com
The World Travel Awards was conceived in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate
excellence in the world\'s travel and tourism industry. Now in its eleventh year,
travel professionals and discerning travelers have come to regard the World Travel
Awards as the very best endorsement that a travel product could hope to receive.

About Golden Tulip Hospitality Group
Golden Tulip Hospitality Group (www.goldentuliptop.com), with its head offices in
Amersfoort, The Netherlands and Lausanne, Switzerland, is a worldwide hospitality
company with more than 505 hotels, 47,000 rooms in more than 45 countries. The
Golden Tulip Hospitality Group franchises and manages hotels in Europe, the Middle
East & Africa, the Asian Pacific Region and the Americas. In 2006, Hotels Magazine
has ranked this company the 18th largest hotel chain.

As a multi-brand hospitality firm, the Golden Tulip Hospitality Group offers
services in the two, three, four and five star categories. On the two-star side
Golden Tulip has an alliance with the French B&B hotel chain. The three-star concept
is the Tulip Inn for the limited-service first-class category, the four-star
category falls under the Golden Tulip brand for the Superior First-Class business
and Resort hotels and the recently introduced five-star concept Royal Tulip. In
addition Golden Tulip offers its services through its commercial alliance with TOP
International, a German based hotel consortium.

As of the fall of 2006, Golden Tulip will be introducing BRANCHE, Restaurant, Bar
and Lounge. This is a free standing restaurant chain, which will have establishments
in most Golden Tulip Hotels and Tulip Inns operated by Golden Tulip.



Web Site = http://www.goldentulip.com

Contact Details = Media Contact
Golden Tulip Hospitality Group
Ms. Rocio Manzanares - Corporate Communication Manager
Tel: +31 33 2544 828
E-Mail: rocio.manzanares@goldentuliptop.com