The Seaview Resort Xiamen, surrounded by beautiful mountains, romantic beaches and world class landscaped gardens, has frequently been awarded and praised for its facilities and service. Its most recent accolade was winning a place in the top 20 holiday hotel destinations for the annual Travel & Leisure awards in 2009. A notable achievement for a small Fujian hotel group considering that most of these award winners are well-known internationally branded hotels such as Hilton, Sofitel and Aman.

The annual Travel & Leisure Awards, 2009 was held by “Travel & Leisure” magazine, which is the only bilingual (Chinese & English) fashion and leisure lifestyle magazine in China, offering a comprehensive and objective selection report for the global tourism industry. Since it was founded in 2001, journal editors and reporters have traveled numerous times to different destinations on five continents, allowing its readers to share their experiences in business hotels, boutique hotels, cruise liners, golf courses, spas, airlines and other high-end features of the travel industry. Its aim is to represent the most cutting-edge, most enjoyable and most high-end tourism and leisure lifestyle. The selection of awards on offer allows its readers to fully appreciate the most fashionable, most luxurious and most important components of tourism from a new perspective. Thus advocating healthy leisure travel life style, and providing a comprehensive, authoritative travel reference for its readers and business partners.