Every year the European Hotel Managers Association (EHMA) awards general managers of first class and luxury hotels of international reputation who distinguished themselves for excellence in quality, implementation of new strategies, financial improvement, ethical foundation of the profession, staff management and motivation.

What matters is also innovation capacity when referring to different hotel departments to manage as well as detecting opportunities to cooperate, exchange and enhance activities in the territory where the property is located.

Panagiotis (Panos) Almyrantis received this prestigious international recognition of excellence for the year 2014 from the President of the European Hotel Managers Association Hans E. Koch at a ceremony held in Geneva on April 18, 2015 during the Gala Dinner of the 42^nd EHMA annual General Meeting.

Panagiotis (Panos) Almyrantis, is the general manager of Daios Cove Luxury Resort and Villas in Crete, Greece since 2010.

His outstanding academic background with several recognitions was followed by management of sales and operations departments and then to management of hotels such as Holiday Inn Golf Resort Naples Castel Volturno in Italy (2007-2009) and King George in Athens (2009–2010) which granted him several important awards.