St Mellion picks up top award
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One of the UK’s most popular golf venues, The St Mellion International Resort in Cornwall, has scooped its first major award since a £20m refurbishment in 2009.
In the 2010 Cornwall Tourism Awards presented by the Cornwall Development Company, St Mellion – the flagship of the Crown Golf group – won Silver in the prestigious ‘Large Hotel Of The Year’ category.
The ceremony took place at St Mellion International Resort itself when over 300 restaurateurs, hoteliers, and tourist industry leaders gathered in the resort’s St Mellion Suite at to hear the region’s most hotly-anticipated annual tourism awards.
St Mellion’s new 80-bedroom four-star hotel opened in the summer of 2009, with the world-famous Nicklaus Signature Course – rated as one of Great Britain & Ireland’s Top 100 golf courses by Golf World magazine – at its heart.
The resort also opened its new-look Kernow Course in 2010, giving St Mellion members and guests 36 holes of tournament-quality golf alongside its many other facilities.
Both courses are members of the popular 2-FORE!-1 scheme and offer half-price green fees so long as you’ve got a 2-FORE!-1 voucher.
“We’re delighted and proud to have won this award so soon after opening our new hotel,” said Resort Director Stephen Towers.
“The level of competition for this prestigious award is testament to the many excellent large hotels now in Cornwall. With quality and a culture of continual improvement central to what we do, our golf courses are known for being among the best in the region, and it is extremely satisfying that our hotel team has now also been recognised in this way.”
