Our Headline Sponsors
Headline Sponsors 2026-2027
The International Hotel Awards are extremely proud to announce CNBC Arabia, GROHE and American Standard as Headline Sponsors for the 2026–2027 Awards, supporting excellence across the international hospitality sector.
GROHE and American Standard continue their long-standing sponsorship of the Asia Pacific region, while CNBC Arabia serves as Headline Sponsor for the Arabian Hotel Awards, Dubai Hotel Awards and Saudi Arabia Hotel Awards for the 2026–2027 cycle.
CNBC Arabia - Headline Sponsor (Arabia) 2026–2027
The Arab world’s leading business and financial news channel, broadcasting from Dubai Media City to audiences across more than 50 million households. As Headline Sponsor of the 2026–2027 Arabian Property Awards and Arabian Hotel Awards, CNBC Arabia strengthens the authority, reach and regional relevance of the awards programme.
CNBC Arabia – Our Mission
Launched in 2003, CNBC Arabia is the first and leading economic and business news channel in the region. The channel is committed to delivering economic and financial news with credibility, transparency and objectivity, covering local, regional and international markets as they happen. Through close monitoring of market movements and engagement with leading experts and decision-makers, CNBC Arabia provides timely, accurate insight without exaggeration or sensationalism.
American Standard - Sponsor of the Asia Pacific region design categories
For more than 140 years, American Standard have been setting and resetting the standard of health, safety, responsibility, and beauty. Some are satisfied with the status quo, never thinking to challenge what’s possible or imagine what could be. American Standards passion for a better tub, toilet, faucet, sink, and the world never stops flowing.
American Standard don’t punch out early. Or settle for second best. Because every day, people at home, around town, and around the globe – from houses to hotels, master baths to Major League stadiums, colleges to the kitchen sink – depend on American Standard products to work and to wow, to fit in and to stand out.
Whether that means enjoying retirement in their own homes, a cappuccino in their own kitchens, or going hands-free in their hometown stadiums, only one brand has merged beauty, performance, and eco-friendly design to improve the lives of people and the well-being of our planet.
“We will continue to plumb the everyday cycle of life, optimizing our products, so people’s lives are optimized, too. We will push ourselves and pull for each other as we work united with plumbers and partners putting innovation, work ethic, ingenuity, collaboration, and passion into every American Standard product”.
American Standard
GROHE - Sponsor of the Asia Pacific region design categories
GROHE is a leading global brand for complete bathroom solutions and kitchen fittings. Since 2014 GROHE has been part of the strong brand portfolio of LIXIL, a manufacturer of pioneering water and housing products. In order to offer “Pure Freude an Wasser”, every product is based on the brand values of quality, technology, design and sustainability.
The brand offers life-enhancing product solutions as well as services with its dedicated portfolios GROHE QuickFix, GROHE Professional and its premium sub-brand GROHE SPA. All cater to the specific needs of GROHE’s professional business partners and their differentiated target groups.
“With water at the core of its business, the brand contributes to LIXIL’s Impact Strategy with a resource-saving value chain: from CO2-neutral* production, the removal of unnecessary plastic in the product packaging, all the way to water- and energy-saving product technologies such as GROHE Everstream, a water-recirculating shower. Thanks to the hybrid communication ecosystem GROHE X, the brand provides further impulses for the industry. Whether digitally on the brand experience hub, physically or hybrid in the GROHE X Brand & Communication Experience Center in Hemer, Germany or on the road with the GROHE X Motion Trucks, the brand connects people to contribute to LIXIL’s purpose to “make better homes a reality for everyone, everywhere”.