http://www.michelin.com/). After Tokyo, the MICHELIN Guide is pursuing its development in Asia with a new guide to hotels and restaurants in Hong Kong and Macau.
The MICHELIN Guide is constantly developing. In the United States, four cities are now covered (New York since 2005, San Francisco since 2006, and Los Angeles and Las Vegas since late last year). In Europe, the MICHELIN Guide collection covers 20 countries, spanning the continent from Scandinavia to Italy and including the Czech Republic and France. And lastly, in Asia, where the first MICHELIN Guide Tokyo was successfully launched last November. Hong Kong is the next destination that will be added to the collection, with a new Guide scheduled for release just a few months from now. In all, the collection covers 23 countries.
In December 2008, the first MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong and Macau will be released, in Chinese and English.
"Hong Kong has elegant, top-quality hotels offering impeccable service as well as restaurants featuring a wide variety of cuisines. Nicknamed ‘the Las Vegas of Asia', Macau has become very popular with tourists in recent years and offers a very wide selection of hotels and restaurants. The two cities attracted nearly 30 million visitors each last year, making them full-fledged tourist destinations", explains Jean-Luc Naret, Director of the MICHELIN Guides.
Michelin inspectors have been on the ground in Hong Kong and Macau since late 2007. They conduct visits and anonymously dine in restaurants and sleep in hotels to judge the quality and consistency of meals and services and make a pre-selection of these establishments in both cities.
The MICHELIN Guide offers a selection of the best hotels and restaurants in various comfort and price categories. Comfort is rated by fork-and-spoon symbols for restaurants and pavilions for hotels. These pictograms indicate the establishment's equipment, service, cleanliness and general upkeep
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