From more than 200 nominees, the following Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide hotels and hoteliers were honored with these prestigious annual awards for 2017:
Historic Hotels of America New Member of the Year
- The Georges (1789) Lexington, Virginia
Best Social Media of a Historic Hotel
- The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa (1876) Riverside, California
Sustainability Champion
- Inn at the Presidio (1903) San Francisco, California
Best Small Historic Inn/Hotel (Under 75 Guestrooms)
- The Dunhill Hotel (1929) Charlotte, North Carolina
Best Historic Hotel (76-200 Guestrooms)
- Mayflower Park Hotel (1927) Seattle, Washington
Best Historic Hotel (201-400 Guestrooms)
- West Baden Springs Hotel (1902) West Baden Springs, Indiana
Best Historic Hotel (Over 400 Guestrooms)
- Amway Grand Plaza (1913) Grand Rapids, Michigan
Best City Center Historic Hotel
- Marriott Syracuse Downtown (1924) Syracuse, New York
Best Historic Resort
- The Broadmoor (1918) Colorado Springs, Colorado
Best Historic Restaurant in Conjunction with a Historic Hotel
- Penrose Room at The Broadmoor (1918) Colorado Springs, Colorado
Hotel Historian of the Year
- Jim Hewes at The Willard InterContinental, Washington DC (1818) Washington, DC
Ambassador of the Year (Quarter Century of Service)
- Woodrow “Woody” Pettus at The Omni Homestead Resort (1766) Hot Springs, Virginia
Best Historic Hotels Worldwide hotel in Europe
- Hotel Waldhaus Sils (1908) Sils Maria, Switzerland
Best Historic Hotels Worldwide hotel in Asia/Pacific
- Alsisar Haveli (1892) Jaipur, India
Best Historic Hotels Worldwide hotel in the Americas
- Fairmont Le Château Frontenac (1893) Québec City, Canada
Historian of the Year
- Chef Walter Staib, author, twelve time Emmy Award winning TV host of A Taste of History©, and chef and proprietor of City Tavern Restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stewards of History and Historic Preservation Award
- D. (Dan) Musser III at Grand Hotel (1887) Mackinac Island, Michigan
Legendary Family Historic Hoteliers of the Year
- The Smiley Family at Mohonk Mountain House (1869) New Paltz, New York
Historic Hotelier of the Year
- Philip Wood at The Jefferson, Washington, DC (1923) Washington, DC
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Duane and Kelly Roberts at The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa(1876) Riverside, California