{"id":346747,"date":"2018-12-02T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T11:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2019-01-29T02:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:41:44","slug":"how-do-a-hotel-get-star-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/life-style\/how-do-a-hotel-get-star-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"How do a hotel get star rating ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hotels have been always linked at being a luxury 5 star or a normal mid-amenity 3 star, but what does this rating actually means and how hotels get their rating?<\/p>\n
On the whole, star ratings can be very useful; if you’re just crashing for a few hours during a road trip, you don’t need many amenities, and probably don’t want to pay for them either. But if you are on your only real vacation of the year and will be staying several days, you don’t want a flea-pit with dark rooms, poor service and, worst of all, bad (or no) coffee. Star ratings can give you a very quick sense of what the room at the inn is really like.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In recent years hotel rating systems have also been criticized by some who argue that the rating criteria for such systems are overly complex and difficult for laypersons to understand. It has been suggested that the lack of a unified global system for rating hotels may also undermine the usability of such schemes.<\/p>\n
Standards of hotel classification<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Some countries have a rating by a single public standard – Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Hungary have laws defining the hotel rating. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland the rating is defined by the respective hotel industry association using a 5-star system – the German classifications are Tourist (), Standard (), Comfort (<\/strong><\/em>), First Class (****) and Luxury (*****) with the mark Superior to flag extras beyond the minimum defined in the standard.<\/p>\n In France, the rating is defined by the public tourist board of the department using a four star system (plus “L” for Luxus) which has changed to a 5-star system from 2009 on. In South Africa and Namibia, the Tourist Grading Council of South Africa has strict rules for a hotel types granting up to 5 stars.<\/p>\n World Hotel Rating<\/strong><\/p>\n There is so far no international classification which has been adopted. There have been attempts at unifying the classification system so that it becomes an internationally recognized and reliable standard, but they have all failed.<\/p>\n It has been considered that, as it has been the case in other areas (e.g. international accounting standards), hotel classification standards should result from a private and independent initiative. This may be the case of the World Hotel Rating (WHR) project, which notably aims to set international classification standards and rating criteria along the lines of a world star-rating system. It will also establish an information platform on the hotel industry which will be multilingual and multicultural.<\/p>\n WHR intends to play a key role in the development of quality hotel services, as well as equitable and sustainable tourism, and the protection of the world’s cultural and natural heritage. In addition, WHR will develop labels to promote hotels distinguished by specific features, such as a family and child-friendly disposition. A test period is scheduled for 2010.<\/p>\n