The Michelin Guide

Michelin has been in the business of evaluating and recommending restaurants and hotels for over a century. We employ full-time professional inspectors who anonymously visit restaurants and hotels, and evaluate them on a range of criteria. Our evaluation process has been honed over time to identify consistently high-quality establishments to suit a range of budgets and across a range of styles and cuisines.

If our inspectors are impressed by a restaurant or hotel, they visit the establishment again. And again. It is this sort of obsessive research that makes the Michelin Guide such a reliable source of recommendations. No matter what the occasion, we think you’ll find that the Michelin Guide will help you make the perfect choice. 

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PKF Consulting (PKFC)

PKF Consulting (PKFC) is an international firm of management consultants, industry specialists, and appraisers who provide a full range of services to the hospitality, real estate, and tourism industries.

PKF Consulting, a U.S. corporation, is the parent company of the PKF Capital Markets Group, which offers real estate transaction and capital markets services, and PKF Hospitality Research, a hospitality-related market research firm.

PKF Hospitality Research owns the database for Trends in the Hotel Industry, the statistical review of U.S. hotel operations which first appeared in 1935 and has been published every year since then. PKF Consulting professionals use the Trends database to assist their clients - hotel owners and operators, financial institutions, real estate developers, investors, and governmental agencies - in making informed decisions. The Trends database is the oldest and most comprehensive source of hotel financial information in the United States. 

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Lodging Econometrics (LE)

Launched in 1995 with the encouragement of Wall Street analysts and many Lodging Industry leaders, Lodging Econometrics (LE) is the recognized authority on all hotel real estate including the Development Pipeline and the Sale and Transfer of Lodging Real Estate nationwide. LE also compiles and maintains the Industry’s Census of Open and Operating Hotels including the Names of Owners & Management for more than 60,000 hotels in the U.S. and Canada.

LE’s experienced staff of market analysts and research specialists monitors any of the 50 states and 162 markets across the country, gathering the details of all lodging real estate activity from public domain sources: Owners, Investors, Developers, Contractors and others concerned with the Industry, re-verifying each record with 95 Brand Managers and updating them quarterly.

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Travelscream Technologies

Travelscream Technologies is the leading provider of content syndication, Web 2.0 and social media marketing solutions for travel; serving the hospitality industry with critical tools to compete effectively in a consumer-networked world. Travelscream’s Web 2.0 Toolkit consists of a blog and content sharing system, RSS subscription service, interactive map, guestbook, message board, digital audio/video, widgets and promotional content feeds on the websites of leading online publishers.

Travelscream’s turnkey solutions build networks of people and content that travel the web, enabling travel providers to influence conversational society by prompting interaction with content and sharing in online media, social networks and bookmarking sites. Travelscream provides partners with advanced metrics that easily demonstrate the value of consumer engagement, so smart hoteliers and publishers can demonstrate compelling results. http://www.travelscream.com

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tophotelprojects.com®

As one of the leading databases for hotel leads, tophotelprojects.com® offer more than 2,500 detail sheets of all important hotel projects worldwide. Every month more than 150 new hotel projects are being added and over 350 project sheets are being updated. Publisher of tophotelprojects.com® is the CHD Expert Group.

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Hospitality Design Magazine

Hospitality Design magazine, published 10 times a year, is the premier trade magazine serving the field of hospitality design. It connects owners, operators, purchasing agents, designers, and architects involved in the design of hotels, resorts, restaurants, cruise ships, country clubs, night clubs, conference centers, spas, senior living facilities and all other hospitality-oriented projects.

Hospitality Design continues its 27-year mission to publish the accomplishments of various design teams that collaborate to bring the most innovative examples of new construction and renovation to the industry.

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Travel + Leisure

Travel + Leisure is the ultimate handbook for discerning travelers who are interested in the people, places, and trends that define modern global culture. Each month these 4.7 million readers rely on T+L to offer up-to-the-minute service information, provide innovative travel strategies, and reveal “secret” and “unspoiled” destinations around the globe.

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Conde Nast Traveller

Over 200 guides to the world’s best destinations

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Globalysis Ltd.

Globalysis Ltd. is a unique name in the professional services and research industry. We are a boutique research and consulting firm with very advanced capabilities and our strategic focus is global in nature. Our global and strategic based approach is embodied as follows:

Our Name: Globalysis can be pronounced in many different ways. In fact, we love to hear our clients pronounce it in their own unique and creative way. It’s one of the ways we ensure and showcase that our relationship with our clients is unique, custom, international and focused on our client’s specific preferences.

Global Focus: We focus on new market expansion into international markets and the expansion of emerging economies. In particular, our firm has extensive expertise internationally and with the special focus on serving the Fortune 500 client base.

Analysis Based: All of our processes, methods, and approaches in our various practice areas are based upon our deep analysis and research of best practices and strategies that can be deployed. In fact, most of our Partners and Associates have a comprehensive formal academic background in their Practice area.

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PhoCusWright

PhoCusWright is the travel industry research authority on how travelers, suppliers and intermediaries connect. Independent, rigorous and unbiased, PhoCusWright fosters smart strategic planning and tactical decision-making.

PhoCusWright delivers qualitative and quantitative research on the evolving dynamics that influence travel, tourism and hospitality distribution. Our marketplace intelligence is the industry standard for segmentation, sizing, forecasting, trends, analysis and consumer travel planning behavior. Every day around the world, senior executives, marketers, strategists and research professionals from all segments of the industry value chain use PhoCusWright research for competitive advantage.

To bring this intelligence to life, PhoCusWright produces several high-profile conferences in the U.S., U.K., Germany, India and Singapore where industry leaders gather to debate issues, share ideas and define the ever-evolving reality of travel commerce.

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L’Hôtellerie Restauration

Toutes les informations nécessaires aux métiers de la Restauration et de l’Hôtellerie.

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HOTELS

HOTELS is the only publication that provides the total information package needed to succeed in today’s global hotel marketplace: crucial news and finance stories; worldwide hotel project development; and trends in hotel design, operations, and foodservice that transcend national boundaries and can be applied throughout the world. The official publication of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association, HOTELS magazine provides more global news and features than any other publication. It is the best read and most influential publication in the field.

It is published 12 times per year.

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The Institute of Hospitality

The Institute of Hospitality is the professional body for managers – and aspiring managers – working in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industries.

With over 10,000 members in the UK, and in more than 100 countries worldwide, we aim to offer support to our members throughout their careers in the industry.

The Institute is managed as an educational charity, with its primary purpose being “to promote the highest professional standards of management and education in the international hospitality, leisure and tourism industries”. We exist to benefit members in their professional and career development, while continuing to improve industry sector standards.

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Market Metrix

Market Metrix helps hospitality companies around the world foster loyal customers and engaged employees.  Based on award-winning research and breakthrough concepts, our products deliver instant survey results, analysis and management tools for increasing revenue and reducing staff turnover.  Our benchmarking database, MMHI, is the most comprehensive, independent comparison of consumer brand satisfaction in the industry. 

Our annual MMHI Awards are coveted by lodging and travel enterprises around the world.  With clients that include more than 120 brands across 70 countries, Market Metrix has been helping leading hospitality companies turn feedback into performance since 1996.

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STR Global

The HotelBenchmark™ Survey by STR Global is the undisputed market leader in monitoring global hotel performance outside North America, providing a unique overview of the trends shaping the hotel industry.

Currently, we track more than 500 markets in 140 countries on a daily and monthly basis. Data is collected from over 7,800 hotels, creating the world’s largest hotel performance database. This provides you with the competitive information you need to run your business more successfully.

The HotelBenchmark™ Survey’s depth and coverage is unrivalled, and has provided an independent, reliable and trusted source of critical information for more than 10 years.

We have a range of services that can be adapted to your needs.

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Breaking Travel News (BTN)

Breaking Travel News (BTN) is one of the Internet’s most comprehensive online travel news networks that offers both the travel trade and consumers instant updates on the most significant developments in the travel and tourism sector.

BTN delivers news as it breaks via a free daily newsletter and features specialised news, reviews and interviews on major travel industry sectors such as Airlines, Hotels, Spas, Caribbean and Technology.

Interactive features include an extensive events calendar, competitions and voting polls. Additionally, industry leaders regularly offer their insight and views in the opinion section.

BTN’s worldwide readership includes travel and technology marketers and vendors, IT professionals, travel agents, airline reservation agencies, tour operators, incentive houses, events and meetings organisers, senior thought leaders in all aspects of the travel sector, as well as the very consumers that keep the wheels of our industry in constant motion. 

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Hospitality News

Latest Hospitality News across the UK and Ireland. Including regional news breakdown within the hotel, restaurant, catering pub & bar sectors.

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Foodservice & Hospitality Technology & E-Commerce Market Research Reports

Discover comprehensive data, analysis, and company reports on the foodservice & hospitality technology and e-commerce industry. Our collection of in-depth reports provides insights into industry trends, opportunities, projections, sales, and marketing strategies. Specific features include data on market share, segmentation, size, and growth in the US and worldwide.

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Benjamin Christie Australian Celebrity Chef

Australian Celebrity Chef from TV Cooking Show Dining Downunder. Blog includes Australian native foods, recipes, ingredients, cookbooks, restaurants, menu development, bush tucker cooking.

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HotelBenchmark

The HotelBenchmark™ Survey by Deloitte is the undisputed market leader in monitoring global hotel performance outside North America, providing a unique overview of the trends shaping the hotel industry.

Currently, we track more than 485 markets in 140 countries on a daily and monthly basis. Data is collected from over 7,800 hotels, creating the world’s largest hotel performance database. This provides you with the competitive information you need to run your business more successfully.

The HotelBenchmark™ Survey’s depth and coverage is unrivalled, and has provided an independent, reliable and trusted source of critical information for more than 10 years.

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