LOCAL tourist destination Dive Munda has been shortlisted for the 2016 Luxury Travel Guide Global Awards.
This was according to a statement from the organization this week.
“Dive Munda is super proud to announce that we have been shortlisted for the 2016 Luxury Travel Guide Global Awards,” it says.
According to the statement, the tourist destination was nominated based on various criteria.
This includes, Service Excellence, Local knowledge, Online visibility, Marketing and Branding, Employee satisfaction and Cultural understanding and Diversity.
The announcement also comes as welcoming news for the tourism industry of the country.
The Luxury Travel Awards recognise and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the affluent travel and tourism industry.
“Our team of experts have scoured the globe and travelled extensively in order to identify everything from the very best hotels, airlines and tour operators through to highlighting the most reputable transfer service companies,” a brief of the award stresses.
Dive Munda is based in the village of Munda, nestled on the premises of the beautiful and tranquil Agnes Gateway Hotel, on the southern coast of New Georgia Island in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands, an area renowned for its peaceful beauty and friendly people as well as its amazing reefs and incredible biodiversity.
Munda boasts with an international airstrip, stunning, serene and romantic scenery, amazing WWII history, a vibrant local culture and of course, world class diving.
The diving adventures ranges from Stunning wall dives, pristine coral reefs, fascinating WWII ship and plane wrecks and a unique cave dive.
Seeing sharks, rays, turtles, schooling fish, pelagics, reef fish and colourful sightings on some of the world’s best dive sites.
By RONALD TOITO’ONA
