Milestone Wins 2 Best In Class Awards

Santa Clara, CA (USA) – 10 August 2012 – Milestone Internet Marketing, Inc., a leading Internet marketing company specializing in the lodging industry, won two Best in Class awards in the highly competitive Interactive Media Awards™ competition that concluded in June 2012. The winning entries, a portal website for Warwick International Hotels (www.warwickhotels.com/) and the website for Grand Hotel & Spa Ocean City (www.grandhoteloceancity.com/), were judged against a field of hundreds of submissions from around the world.

The Interactive Media Awards (IMA) recognizes the highest standards of excellence in website design and development, and honors individuals and organizations for outstanding achievement. Websites are evaluated based on five criteria: design, content, feature functionality, usability, and standards compliance. Winning entries demonstrate excellence in all categories. Best in Class is the highest honor bestowed by IMA and concludes that Warwick International Hotels’ and the Grand Hotel & Spa Ocean City’s websites represent the highest standards of professionalism, standards compliance, impeccable planning and execution, and are two of the world’s most well-executed websites.

“In partnering with Milestone, Warwick International Hotels has achieved more than an award-winning web site design. To win the prestigious IMA Best in Class indicates our company’s potential to increase online traffic and revenue for our hotels and resorts,” said Warren Chiu, director of project development for Warwick International Hotels. “Our main objective in working with an experienced Internet marketing company like Milestone was to create a website that would enhance the all-around user experience while increasing our hotel properties’ respective relevancy in search engines. We are delighted by the news that the Interactive Media Council recognizes Warwick International Hotels as a Best in Class recipient.”

In addition to the two Best in Class awards, Milestone has also won Outstanding Website Awards for:

Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza (www.historicplazahotelsantafe.com/)
The Sainte Claire (www.thesainteclaire.com/)

About Milestone
Milestone Internet Marketing, Inc.’s portfolio of services for the lodging industry includes award winning web site design, search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, social media optimization, and eBuzz Connect™ online reputation monitoring. A premier Internet marketing company, Milestone currently works with over 1,200 hotels and drives over $550-million in annual revenue for its clients. Milestone is a preferred Internet marketing agency for several major lodging industry brands and works with some of the leading management companies. Milestone is also well known as a lodging industry educator for its Hotels to HTMLs Internet marketing workshops and book.

Media Contact:

Teresa Villaruz
Sr. Marketing Specialist
Tel: 408-200-6871
Email: pr@milestoneinternet.com