QUALITY Hotel Wangaratta Gateway has been awarded the 2022 International Best of Choice Award, during a presentation ceremony in Las Vegas.

Owners Wendy and Peter Lester will return this weekend with their award, which follows the Wangaratta venue's success in the 2022 Choice Hotels Asia–Pac Hotel of the Year awards in March, and special awards announcements in April.

The international award recognises the Wangaratta hotel as a stand–out Quality branded property, and places it among the best in the Choice Hotels International network of more than 2000 Quality hotels globally.

It follows a successful year for the hotel, which was recognised in the Choice Hotels Asia–Pac Gold Awards and won the Quality brand category in the group's Hotel of the Year Awards for 2022.

The hotel also won the 2022 Victoria Tourism Awards 4 – 4.5 Star Deluxe Accommodation Category.

"We're all very excited; it was totally out of the blue this year," Ms Lester said.

She said recognition was appreciated following the tough conditions of the past three years, and she was proud to have managed to keep the team together during those times, and to see the business flourishing in the "new normal".

The Best of Choice award winners were formally recognised and celebrated at the Choice Hotels International 'Unstoppable' Convention in Las Vegas at the end of April.