colony one of the top 25 hotels in the world.

Gourmet, "The Magazine of Good Living'', polled its readers to determine their favourite accommodations and published the list in its May Collector's Issue.

The hotels were rated on ambience, service and fine cuisine and in the top 25 was the 46-room Horizons and Cottages which is a member of Relais & Chateaux -- universally acknowledged as the world's most prestigious association of hoteliers and restaurants.

The article featured a photograph of the South Shore site and noted its "gorgeous views of the Atlantic'', "snug privacy of the cottages'', the romantic "candlelit, outdoor dining'' and "excellent French food on the menu''.

Horizons topped the list of the best five hotels in Bermuda which also included, in descending order, The Reefs, Cambridge Beaches, The Pink Beach Club and Lantana Colony Club -- who were tied -- and the Southampton Princess.

A Bermuda magazine has won four top awards from a major trade organisation.

Bermuda Magazine, with a circulation of just 35,000 at home and abroad, beat competitiors with circulations of up to 500,000 in the International Regional Magazine Association's (IRMA) annual awards.

The quarterly publication won two silver awards and one bronze for writing and a certificate of merit for artwork.

The silvers were for editor Charles Barclay's editorial Bye, Bye, Boremuda on the controversial Let Yourself Go tourism campaign and for the Mouse that Scored, a report on the Bermudian economy by Mr. Barclay and Roger Crombie, who also writes for The Royal Gazette's RG Magazine and The Mid-Ocean News.

The bronze was for Trading Places -- an article by Duncan McDowall on the development of Tucker's Town.

Meg Birmbaum's art direction for a piece called State of the Onion won the certificate.

The association has 60 member magazines in the US, UK, and Ireland, with a combined circulation of four million an issue.

Mr. Barclay -- whose magazine hosted the IRMA convention in Bermuda last week -- said: "I do see the awards as an indication that we are coming of age as a magazine. We were in some quite elevated company.'' TOURISM TOU