Tangla Hotel gets 'Oscar' for service

The Tangla Hotel Tianjin recently became the first hotel on the Chinese mainland to be given the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences' International Six Star Diamond Award, the highest award of excellence in the global hospitality industry, according to Hainan Airlines Group, the company that manages the hotel.

"Drawing on the development of excellent international hotel brands combined with the profound cultural connotations of China, HNA Hospitality Group has devoted itself to the development, standardization and improvement of its operations and management concepts and systems," says Steven Song, chairman and president of HNA Hospitality Group. "Awareness of the Tangla brand as a homegrown Chinese national luxury hotel brand has been continuously promoted, and its social influence has also improved."

The award signifies that China's hospitality industry is developing its own world-renowned brands capable of competing with foreign heavyweights like Hilton and Starwood, Song says.