March 2, 2012: India's first destination spa, Ananda in the Himalayas, has again won an award, this time by being voted as 'Number One Spa in the World' at the Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Spa Awards 2012.
The readers also voted Ananda as a winner in the ‘Best Overseas Spa Retreat’ category. Ananda in the Himalayas was awarded top marks for its ambience and design, its body treatments and individual approach.
The award was accepted by Malti Kapur, Ananda's first ever guest on behalf of Ananda in the Himalayas.
Ananda in the Himalayas has also bagged an additional award by being voted as the ‘Best Destination Spa’ in India at the Travel + Leisure India & South Asia first edition of the India's Best Awards. The polling was conducted as a reader’s poll both through the magazine and online in 2011, and culminated in the first announcement and Awards in New Delhi recently.