Hospitality Insight

U.S. News & World Report has issued their annual ranking of the top hotels, covering 852 luxury hotel properties across 49 popular travel destinations in the United States.

A Hotel Score is calculated for each property, consisting of the weighted average of scores for three components: Awards & Recognition, Hotel Class, and Guest Rating. The number of points earned by the hotel is combined and then divided that by the number of points for which the hotel was eligible. On a given list, hotels are ranked highest to lowest according to the Hotel Score. Hotels with high expert/user ratings and many industry accolades are likely to perform best.

The Top 10 U.S. hotels:

1. Elysian Hotel Chicago – Chicago, IL
2. Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea – Maui, HI
3. Trump International Hotel & Tower, Chicago – Chicago, IL
4. Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco – San Francisco, CA
5. The Fairmont Olympic Hotel – Seattle, WA
6. The Hermitage Hotel – Nashville, TN
7. The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park – New York, NY
8. Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas – Las Vegas, NV
9. Trump International Hotel & Tower, New York – New York, NY
10. The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples – Naples, FL

See the full list on the U.S. News & World Report website.

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