The best urban hotels understand the pace of modern travel, while exceptional MICE destinations know how to turn gathering into experience. Together, this year’s nominees reflect a hospitality landscape shaped by location, flexibility, thoughtful service and spaces designed equally well for individual stays, business journeys and moments of collective connection.
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A city hotel is often experienced in fragments: the first coffee before a meeting, a late return after dinner, the view from a window before the streets begin to move. Its success lies in making those transitions feel effortless.
As Gourmet Vietnam Awards returns for Season 2, the Best City Hotel of the Year category celebrates properties that understand how travellers live within a city rather than simply sleep in it. Location matters, but so do comfort, character, service and the ability to create a sense of calm within an urban rhythm.
Bạch Suites Saigon
The Best City Hotel of the Year 2026 nominees are:
Hotel Nikko Saigon · Novotel Danang Premier Han River · Grand K Hotel Suites Hanoi · Rêve Ho Chi Minh City, Vignette Collection by IHG · Fusion Suites Sai Gon · KiN Hotel Thi Sach Edition · Bạch Suites Saigon
KiN Hotel Thi Sach Edition
Some offer polished international hospitality, others a more intimate or contemporary approach to the city stay. What connects them is an understanding that urban hospitality must feel both efficient and personal, giving guests access to the energy outside while creating a distinct experience within.
That same principle of thoughtful design becomes even more important when hospitality moves from the individual to the collective.
Novotel Danang Premier Han River
The Best MICE Hotel & Resort nominees are:
Grand Plaza Hotel Hanoi · Ascott Tay Ho Hanoi · Equatorial Ho Chi Minh City · Furama Resort Danang · Ariyana Convention Centre
Meetings, incentives, conferences and events demand more than scale. Successful MICE destinations balance logistics with atmosphere, technology with human service, and flexibility with a clear sense of place. A ballroom may host hundreds, yet the experience is often remembered through smaller details: a seamless arrival, thoughtful catering, the rhythm of a programme or the confidence of a team working quietly behind the scenes.
Rêve Ho Chi Minh City, Vignette Collection by IHG
Together, these two categories reveal different expressions of modern hospitality. One responds to the individual traveller moving through the city; the other creates the conditions for people to gather, exchange ideas and celebrate together. At their best, both understand the same essential truth: hospitality is not defined by the size of a room or the length of a stay, but by how intuitively a place responds to the people using it.
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