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Best Food Spots To Visit While Travelling? Trip.Gourmet Announces Top Restaurants & New Features At Global Awards
Sunny Sun , Vice President of Trip.com Group and CEO of Trip.Gourmet, shared: "More travellers are excited to explore the world through the universal language of food. At Trip.Gourmet, we celebrate culinary excellence, from fine dining to local flavours. Our new rankings and upgrades empower travellers to savour exceptional gastronomic experiences wherever they go."
Founded in 2016, Trip.Gourmet on Trip.com is a one-stop food guide, offering global restaurant rankings, travel-focused food content, and reservation options. At the event, it introduced several exciting upgrades:
Now covers over 10,000 restaurants in over 300 cities and regions. It has categorised them into four new themes that blend travel with dining: and
These are selected based on restaurant quality and popularity, user reviews, relevance to theme, and popularity of the destinations. There is also greater emphasis on the travel attributes of restaurants, compared to other food quality-centred rankings.
Another major update is the full integration of selected restaurants within lists on the Trip.com app, allowing travellers to seamlessly discover top accommodations, activities, dining, and nightlife in one place. Learn more about Trip.Best here.
Several fine dining establishments from the were recognised at the awards ceremony, including Odette, Waku Ghin by Tetsuya Wakuda and CUT by Wolfgang Puck in Singapore ; Kubu at Mandapa in Bali ; Potong and Le Du in Bangkok ; SÉZANNE and RyuGin in Tokyo , and La Yeon and Bicena in Seoul .
On the prestigious , nearly 49.12% of the top restaurants hailed from France , China , and Japan , reflecting their dominance in the fine dining scene. Europe made a strong showing with entries like Core by Clare Smyth (UK), L'Oiseau Blanc ( France ) and Disfrutar ( Spain ).
featured prominently, with 41% of the Trip.Gourmet rankings dedicated to luxury hotel restaurants, a rising preference from more affluent travellers. Notable mentions include Lai Po Heen at the Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpur , JAAN by Kirk Westaway in Swissôtel The Stamford Singapore, and Ossiano at the Atlantis, The Palm Dubai. In particular, the Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton brands stood out, hosting multiple top-rated restaurants in locations like Hong Kong , Paris , Tokyo , and Osaka .
Trip.Gourmet now supports direct reservations to over 50,000 restaurants with leading restaurant booking platforms, making it easier than ever for travellers to secure reservations at top dining establishments worldwide.
This includes The Fork in Europe , Chope in
Southeast Asia , OpenRice in Hong Kong ,
Macao , and Taiwan regions, OpenTable in
North America , and TableCheck in
Japan .,
To further enrich the travel experience, Trip.Gourmet has launched on dual platforms (Trip.com and Ctrip). This feature uncovers local culinary gems, recommending speciality food lists and must-try dishes to travellers. The channel aims to inspire culinary exploration by showcasing the unique flavours of local delicacies in diverse destinations. This complements Trip.com's Travel Guides feature, which covers not only food, but also entertainment, transportation, accommodation and shopping, as well as useful tools such as tourist maps and routes.
In collaboration with Shangri-La, a new " campaign was launched, which packages hotel stays, signature dishes and food vouchers. This ties in with the rising popularity of hotel dining, with a mini-drama series produced by Trip.Gourmet launched on social media to support this.
Since 2016, Trip.Gourmet has been dedicated to providing objective and fair food guides amid a vast array of restaurants and diverse user tastes. Leveraging years of user data and authoritative culinary opinions, Trip.Gourmet selects the best dining experiences worldwide. The Trip.Gourmet Global Rebrand Launch and Trip.Best Gourmet Awards Ceremony on August 23, 2024 , represents the next step in delivering practical, accurate, and efficient food guides for global travellers.
For more information and to explore the top restaurants, visit Trip.com.
Trip.com Group is a leading global travel service provider comprising of Trip.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, and Qunar. Across its platforms, Trip.com Group helps travellers around the world make informed and cost-effective bookings for travel products and services and enables partners to connect their offerings with users through the aggregation of comprehensive travel-related content and resources, and an advanced transaction platform consisting of apps, websites and 24/7 customer service centres. Founded in 1999 and listed on NASDAQ in 2003 and HKEX in 2021, Trip.com Group has become one of the best-known travel groups in the world, with the mission "to pursue the perfect trip for a better world". Find out more about Trip.com Group here: group.trip.com.
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