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Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts were recently recognized by Travel Weekly in their premier travel industry awards, the Travel Weekly Magellan Awards. From design to marketing to services, the Magellan Awards honor the best in travel and salute the outstanding travel professionals behind it all. After a year of resilience, creativity and innovation, the World’s Leading Industry Experts at the 2021 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards honored brands and teams that demonstrated an ability to shift marketing messaging daily, focus on safety innovations and found creative and successful ways to adapt products and services to the new reality

Sandals Resorts International proudly received seven “Gold” and “Silver” recognitions at the Travel Weekly Magellan Awards in a variety of categories, including:

• GOLD:
  • Hospitality Marketing Campaign - Sandals State of Mind
  • Overall Safety Innovations - Platinum Protocols of Cleanliness
  • Best Beach Resort/Hotel - Sandals South Coast
  • Overall Special Needs for Hospitality - Beaches Resorts’ Autism Program

• SILVER:
  • 5-Star Lobby/Common Space - Sandals Montego Bay
  • Golf Resort/Hotel - Sandals Emerald Bay
  • Overall Family Resort/Hotel - Beaches Turks & Caicos

 After a year of drawing on the power of social media, Sandals Resorts is especially proud of winning the Hospitality Marketing Campaign for its Sandals State of Mind campaign at this year’s Travel Weekly Magellan Awards. The campaign was designed to put couples into a ‘Sandals State of Mind’ via curated videos and posts with Sandals guests’ favorite recipes, directions on how to create romantic flourishes at home, music, images and more that transported guests on a virtual Sandals vacation and gave travelers something to look forward to at a time when travel came to a halt.

Sandals Resorts is also proud to receive an accolade for its Platinum Protocols of Cleanliness under the Overall Safety Innovations category, recognizing the company’s enhanced health and safety measures and collaborative efforts to reopen the Caribbean to tourism at large. For 40 years, Sandals® Resorts has continuously implemented and strengthened its industry-leading health and safety protocols to ensure guests are able to enjoy their Caribbean vacation, and team members are able to deliver exceptional service. So in a time of uncertainty, Sandals Resorts moved quickly to develop the Sandals Platinum Protocols of Cleanliness across all resorts in order to reopen its doors to and get everyone #BackToHappy.

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For more information about these award-winning resorts, please visit www.sandals.com and www.beaches.com. For more information on the Magellan Awards, please visit https://www.travelweeklyawards.com/.