The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd. Taps Deloitte and Smith Travel Research
NEW YORK, NY, April 25, 2006. The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd. recently announced the selection Deloitte and Smith Travel Research as the company's preferred providers of worldwide lodging industry metrics and property-level benchmarking reports. The mainstays of this initiative are Deloitte's global HotelBenchmark Survey, and in North America, Smith Travel Research's STAR program.
With over 30,000 hotels across 140 countries in the combined databases, the HotelBenchmark Survey and STAR programs offer the hotel industry the largest, most comprehensive, authoritative and independently collected source of performance data. The surveys measure and track occupancy, average daily room rate (ADR) and revPAR.
Commenting on the agreement, Lee Andrews, executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd., said, "We are delighted to work with Deloitte and STR as partners to provide our member hotels with this invaluable research and benchmarking tool. The Leading Hotels of the World excel as leaders in ADR and occupancy in the markets we are located. This tool will help us quantify our success on a local, regional and global basis"
The metrics provided by Deloitte and STR are used by all major international and domestic hotel chains, management companies and owners, as well as a large number of independent hotels for yield and revenue management.
The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd. is the prestigious luxury hospitality organization representing more than 430 of the world's finest hotels, resorts and spas, and is the operator of www.lhw.com - the online source for your luxury lifestyle. As the largest international luxury hotel brand, the company maintains offices in 24 major markets across the globe.
Since 1928, the company's reputation for excellence derives from the exacting levels of quality it demands of its members, each of which must pass a rigorous, anonymous inspection covering 1,500 separate criteria.
Contact: Deniz Omurgonulsen, Director of Membership Development denizo@lhw.com
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