Founded in 2015 by Ian Whitty, Hotel of the Year Awards will celebrate our 11th year showcasing the best of the luxury hospitality industry globally.
Being included in this exclusive list is the ultimate testament to each property and will become the “Go-to” list of the must-visit destinations for those travellers seeking a true luxury experience.
Each Top 100 Awarded Property will receive a brass plaque as a badge of honour letting their guests know that they are part of this exclusive group.
The 2025 Hotel of the Year Awards will recognise and reward hotels, resorts, boutique properties, family resorts, and spas that deliver exceptional levels of service and world class facilities to its guests.
We have worked with all the leading luxury hotel groups such as:
By becoming a Top 100 Property, you showcase your hotel as much more than a hotel but as a guest experience that will live with your guests for many years and elevate your hotel over your competitors.
Our awards are unique to the hospitality industry as we offer a fully recorded inspection to each official nominee which is then followed up with a comprehensive inspection report that can act as a consultation to review current guest services and facilities. This can be of great value to management and owners who seek to improve the overall guest experience that they offer their guests currently.
We do not require hotels or resorts to enter into voting competitions of any kind and the awards are fully transparent due to our inspection report system. It is also a very cost-effective awards system as the inspection is the only requirement and this does not require hotel management or staff to spend valuable time and money marketing and promoting over a long time period to secure votes.
Benefits of taking part and winning an award.
Each hotel that secures one of our 2025 Top 100 Listing or one of our individual awards will have the option to order a solid brass that can be proudly displayed in each nominated hotel acknowledging their considered relevance amongst the competition for the 2025 Hotel of the Year Awards.
Each winning hotel, resort, and Spa will also receive a custom digital winners logo to use.
Entering our awards process shows that your hotel and its staff endeavour to provide your guests with the highest possible level of service and facilities.
Taking part also gives your hotel management and staff a detailed insight and report into a professional guest experience review in which we score, comment, and suggest ways of improving on all aspects of your guest’s experience.
It gives your staff a target to achieve an award-winning level of service and treat every guest as a VIP guest.
We actively market and promote your hotel Worldwide as one of our nominated and recommended hotels through various media and online marketing opportunities.
Our awards showcase your hotel to a World of new potential guests.
The Hotel of the Year Awards recognise and reward properties that deliver exceptional service and facilities to their guests.
All the great hotels of this World have one thing in common, great service, facilities, and guest experience. Now is the time to showcase your hotel to the World.
Entry is quick and easy.
Simply REGISTER NOW online and we will contact you back within 5 working days to confirm your entry.
Once we receive your registration, we will contact you to confirm your entry and send you details of how our professional hotel judge will inspect and score your hotel based on his/her experience during a future stay.
Your hotel will have the option of receiving a highly detailed guest experience report based on our judge’s stay and experience. This is a 23 page report that will cover every aspect of the stay and will include scores based on the experience and also comments on each, along with professional suggestions on how to improve and enhance both the guest experience and also recommendations on how to potentially increase revenue in each sector of your hotel.
All judge’s reports will remain private and confidential and is only shared with the individual hotel. The scores based on the stay will be used to give your hotel its overall score towards all 2025 hotel awards.
Each hotel is marked and scored by one of our expert hotel inspectors during their stay. They work to a strict set of scoring rules and guidelines during each hotel visit so that each hotel no matter how big or small is judged exactly the same.
We don’t require the hotel to have to market and promote entry to our awards to all its guests and enter into a long drawn out process but we prefer to judge and score on a single pure guest experience as we feel that this is what most guests will experience during an average stay.
Our hotel inspector will spend great time and detail in order to inspect and experience all each hotel has to offer its guests. Notes, comments, and recommendations will be recorded and available to each hotel on a confidential basis as part of our service and awards inspection.
We experience, record, review, and score all aspects of a guest’s stay from Check-in, room facilities, service, décor & atmosphere, hotel facilities such as dining, gym, pool, room service, business facilities, Spa, and many more.
Once an overall score is then calculated for your hotel and or spa this will then rank your hotel against other hotels in your category and region as well as count towards our overall Hotel of the Year Top 100 Hotel ranking list.
Awards winning scores will be displayed on our website in order of merit so that the public can view, reference and select hotels based on these scores when organising future travel.
Winning hotels will be notified 8weeks in advance of the awards ceremony that they have won an award (actual award not disclosed until the awards ceremony) and can book a package to attend the awards gala ceremony.
How to successfully register to participate:
Complete the registration form & submit.
Send us 3 High Resolution Images of the exterior view of the hotel and 2 room images (JPEG format) via email register@hoteloftheyearawards.com as well as a short description best describing the facilities on offer. This should not exceed a max of 120 words.
Registration payment fee to be paid within 7 working days of entry and also please submit the proof of settled invoice via email.
Our awards are open to all luxury hotel’s, resorts, boutique properties and Spa’s Worldwide.
Images and information that you send us will be used by us for any purpose, will not be subject to confidential treatment and may be disclosed by us without further consent from participants.The hotel inspectors visit report will remain private and confidential and will only be issued to each participating hotel.
Should there be any information changes on the side of the participating property, this should be emailed to register@hoteloftheyearawards.com in order to update the company profile. Should any information changes (e.g. Contacts, name changes, category changes) not be communicated with the hotel of the year Awards we will not be held responsible for outdated information profiles?
Authorized company representatives who submit entries will be our main point of contact unless we are otherwise notified.
When a hotel re-register from one year to another existing images and descriptions of the hotel will be used unless we receive the updated version within 7 days from entry date.
Registration fees can be paid by bank transfer, Euro bank draft or PayPal and made payable to Hotel of the Year Awards Ltd.
Registration invoice to be settled within the given timeframe.
The full registration fee should reach the hotel of the year Awards account thus provision should be made for any charges that may occur due to transferring of funds.
In order for inspectors to also inspect, score, rank, and experience facilities in your hotel or spa for the purpose of entry into all awards categories we request that your hotel or spa offer a complimentary stay on a Half-Board basis (Breakfast & Dinner/Drinks) for a maximum of 2 nights for two people (or 2 adults and 2 children when entering a family-friendly award categories) or a maximum of 3 nights if entering both Hotel & Spa awards valid for a period of 12 months from date of registration.
Transfers are also encouraged but optional to each hotel/resort.
The above mentioned complimentary voucher/s should be outlined by letter, signed by management and emailed to register@hoteloftheyearawards.com
Proof of payment is required and should be emailed to register@hoteloftheyearawards.com
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0% Refund once registration is received.
Registration fees are non-refundable.
No cancellations will be accepted once entries have been successfully submitted.
The company will be held liable for payment of the once-off administration fee as well as any legal costs resulting from failure to pay.
By submitting the registration form, the company agrees to officially participate in the Hotel of the Year Awards for a period of 1 year.
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