Talk:Hotel rating

Hotel classification: more info needed

Hotels use stars to classify themselves. I believe that there are standards for this; perhaps national, perhaps international. The system seem to work.

We need here to give at least some information on the norms for how hotels are classified, and to have good references. Unfortunately, I don't know where to find them. Note that World Hotel Rating is an empty nutshell. There is no official website, neither any document. It seems the company has no more activity.

--HelgeStenstrom (talk) 19:05, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

There is no international standards body that awards stars, nor are the criteria for ratings consistent across private organizations that award stars. Some countries do have an official star system (France is one) but even those stars do not correspond to those awarded by tourist organizations because they have an effect on taxes and because the hotels know that the government star ratings are widely disregarded. As the article says,

In some countries, there is an official body with standard criteria for classifying hotels, but in many others there is none. There have been attempts at unifying the classification system so that it becomes an internationally recognized and reliable standard but large differences exist in the quality of the accommodation and the food within one category of hotel, sometimes even in the same country.

That appears to me to be accurate. It's probably possible to get some references on the French system, though they are most likely in the French language. --MCB (talk) 00:44, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Grace International Bangkok

I tried a lot search engines and travelwebsites, but there is no Grace International in Bangkok...

Could someone confirm this Hotel? Website? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.123.72.133 (talk) 03:51, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Neither do I, in that case, it might be just a hoax. I will remove it. 125.24.44.188 (talk) 18:08, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Hotelstars in Germany

Some additional notes on reality:

• Many small private hotels governed by a single family use the two star rating. This does not require all family members to have a good knowledge of foreign languages and the reception is usually empty with a means to call the hotel service. However they like to provide for a quality breakfast from a low choice and they try to be responsive which differentiates it from the single star hotels that are more common along the motorways for a cheap rest with low service expections.
• The large hotels of the quality hotel chains do often use the first class superior mark. This does not require the intensive guest care of a luxury hotel (which makes for quite an offset in money to pay for) but the superior flag on the first class mark can be obtained quite easily by adding additional facilities like a workout room, having a bicycle rental at the reception and allowing for a conference room to be used during the day (neither of which requires additional personal).
• In the middle the three star hotels can be differentiated by the superior flag whether it is fully renovated or not. Also many modern design hotels like to get the superior mark to have an easily noticeable offset on the standard comfort class. The large-sized hotels can not find enough guests outside of central towns so the three stars comfort is a good choice in the smaller towns with the superior to flag that it almost equivalent to the quality a first class in larger towns.

Guidod (talk) 10:17, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

visitscotland

There is no reference given to the section on visitscotland but it claims "first star rating scheme in the world based on quality outputs, as opposed to a ranking of facilities and service." Searching the web one does come across http://www.visitscotland.com/quality-assurance/star-grading-scheme/ which states that "VisitScotland (formerly known as the The Scottish Tourist Board) uses a five-level star-grading system to indicate the standard of customer care and range of facilities on offer at assessed establishments." That is a contradiction, isn't it? Guidod (talk) 14:59, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, if it isn't a contradiction, at the least it sounds inconsistent! (i.e. I agree) Pdfpdf (talk) 23:59, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

When the U.K. Regional Tourist Boards re-invented themselves as Visit Scotland, Visit England and Visit Wales, they went into negotiations with the A.A. (Automobile Association) and the R.A.C. (Royal Automobile Club) to try and come up with one commonly recognised Star Grading System for the whole U.K. tourist industry. As these discussions were reaching a conclusion the R.A.C. announced its intention of leaving the talks and dropped its grading scheme entirely. The only way a joint standard could be agreed too, was if the former Regional Tourist Boards gave up their Quality based grading system and accepted the Facilities based system favoured by the A.A. This was in part forced on the negotiators representing the Regional Tourist Boards, by Political pressure from Whitehall(ie Peter Hain MP Secretary of State for Wales at the time, told Visit Wales not to leave the talks without coming to an agreement). A side effect of the new system was the sense of betrayal felt by large numbers of smaller Hotel and B and B owners throughout the regions, who had over the previous years been investing their own money into their properties to achieve better star ratings, based on a quality orientated system. Another repercussion of the Facilities based system was the disenfranchising of a large number of small Seaside Hotels, which if they accepted the new grading system would have to be reclassified as Guest Accommodation. (a classification category unrecognised anywhere else in the world.) — Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|Blongb (talk) 18:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC)]] comment added by Blongb (talk • contribs) 17:48, 4 March 2011 (UTC) Blongb (talk) 18:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Hotelstars list

What's the benefit of making the text list into a bullet list? More empty space? ;-) ... Guidod (talk) 22:41, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

So I'd like to revert it from a long table to a plain text list. Guidod (talk) 10:40, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

British vs American English

From what I have been told, even scolded, by several other users, the content of the article determines the form of English used, e.g. the article on the Grand Canyon would use American English etc etc. Within this article I found both British and American English, so I can only assume some people are not following the Wiki guidelines. Comments/suggestions, anyone? Kslall8765 (talk) 03:37, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Im an English writer that generally writes American based on the content I need to create. Based on your stated guidelines, and the knowledge that this article does not cover just a national standards, but instead covers international ratings, I would assume that either American or British English could be used. It would be good if there was consistency by sticking to one type of writing but which one that should be is purely subjective. JLNWriter (talk) 15:14, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Hotel

Hotel ratings are often used to classify hotels according to their quality. From the initial purpose of informing travellers on basic facilities that can be expected, the objectives of hotel rating have expanded into a focus on the hotel experience as a whole. Today the terms 'grading', 'rating', and 'classification' are used to generally refer to the same concept, that is to categorize hotels.

There are a wide variety of rating schemes used by different organizations around the world. Many have a system involving stars, with a greater number of stars indicating greater luxury. Forbes Travel Guide, formerly Mobil Travel Guide, launched its star rating system in 1958. The AAA and their affiliated bodies use diamonds instead of stars to express hotel and restaurant ratings levels.

Food services, entertainment, view, room variations such as size and additional amenities, spas and fitness centers, ease of access and location may be considered in establishing a standard. Hotels are independently assessed in traditional systems and rest heavily on the facilities provided. Some consider this disadvantageous to smaller hotels whose quality of accommodation could fall into one class but the lack of an item such as an elevator would prevent it from reaching a higher categorization. Abe113 (talk) 02:17, 24 August 2022 (UTC)