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The World's Best Hotels has its roots in a 1980 Institutional Investor conference in the south of France. An after-dinner conversation of a group of financial executives turned into an animated discussion of their favorite hotels, and the results of that ad hoc poll, scribbled casually on napkins, gave rise to the very first Institutional Investor survey of the world's best hotels. Ever since then, the magazine's annual ranking of hotels, polled from its worldwide subscription base, has been an eagerly anticipated event each September. The results of the most recent survey are showcased in The World's Best Hotels 08/09, a fitting tribute to those palaces of comfort that go the extra mile to make every guest feel right at home.