As one of the longest-running and most trusted authorities of excellence in the travel industry, the highly-anticipated poll ranks hotels, resorts, cities and more on a variety of metrics, and publishes the crème de la crème of travel in its November issue. This year, over 429,000 respondents submitted millions of ratings and tens of thousands of comments to create a list of winning favorites around the globe.
Dominating the 2018 results were the Luxury and Premium brands of AccorHotels - Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel and MGallery - plus affiliate Banyan Tree and recent acquisitions SBE and 21C Musuem Hotels, which collectively had 60 properties grace this year's list. In particular, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts had an impressive showing with 31 hotels and resorts, almost half of the brand's portfolio, making an appearance.
Standout properties include:
The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel - the iconic property, which scored a remarkable 98.06 overall ranking, beat out leading hotels like the Claridge's, The Ritz London and The Grosvenor House to claim the title of #1 Hotel in London.
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Accor is the No. 1 European hotel group. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- operating hotels under management contract (74.7%; HotelServices);
- owned and leased hotel management (25.3%). In addition, the group offers a business of renting luxury private residences, as well as providing digital services to independent hoteliers, concierge services, etc.
At the end of 2023, the group operates a network of 5,584 hotels (821,518 rooms) distributed primerly between luxury and top-range hotels (978 hotels; Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Swissotel, Grand Mercure, Mövenpick, The Sebel and Rixos names), mid-range hotels (1,732; Novotel, Novotel Suites, Mercure, adagio, Mama Shlter and Tribe), and economy hotels (2,826; ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget, adagio access, hotelF1, Formule 1, Jo&Joe, Breakfree and Greet).
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