Michelin to rate hotels as well as restaurants
Michelin Guide is working to create an initial selection of 5,300 hotels across 120 countries, with the best due to receive their awards in the first half of 2024
Rather than the stars awarded to the top restaurants, the best Michelin-rated hotels will get keys based on several criteria including architecture, individuality, service, comfort and price.
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From stars to keys—the Michelin Guide will start rating hotels in the same way as restaurants, it announced on Thursday.
The editors say they want to create a "trusted reference" that helps travellers cut through the vast array of online hotel suggestions.
Director Gwendal Poullennec said the original Michelin Guide, launched in 1900, "was created to enlighten travellers at a time when there was a lack of information.
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"Today, by contrast, they find themselves confronted by a mass of information. Our users spend on average 10 hours in front of screens to prepare a trip and consult more than 10 platforms -- it's an obstacle course," he said.
Poullennec took over the guide in 2018, the same year it bought Tablet Hotels, a US-based site offering boutique hotel stays around the world.
