After restaurants and bars, here is the list of the 50 best hotels in the world. A ranking proposed by the British publishing group William Reed, which extends the list to hotels. a concept launched in 2002 by its magazine Restauranta bit of a reaction to the Michelin reference.
Chance or coincidence, the first edition of the World's 50 Best Hotelsunveiled on 19 September, comes a few weeks after the announcement of the World's 1,000 Best Hotels list, presented earlier this summer. The List, or the French response to the 50 Best Restaurants, which tended to give less prominence to the heralds of French gastronomy... This is the case with the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2023, a ranking dominated by the Central restaurant in Lima, ahead of Disfrutar in Barcelona and DiverXO in Madrid. Among the top 20, the only French restaurant to find favour with the panel of a thousand experts was La Table by Bruno Verjus in Paris.
French bashing or highlighting the dynamics of World Cuisine? In any case, the World's 50 Best Hotels cannot be accused of this. French palaces are the most represented in this ranking with seven representatives, including three very chic resorts - the Maybourne Riviera and the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc on the Côte d'Azur in addition to the Eden Rock on the island of Saint-Barthélémy - and four Parisian establishments: the Bristol (29th), the Reserve (31st), the Cheval Blanc (34th) and the Crillon (50th). Similarly, Paris, along with London and Bangkok, is the destination with the most hotels in the 50 best hotels in the world according to this ranking, compared with two in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore (see list below).
Alongside the finest representatives of the independent hotel sector, starting with the top-ranked Hotel Passalacqua on the shores of Lake Como, the World's 50 Best Hotels highlight big names in luxury hotels These include Aman and Four Seasons, with four hotels each, ahead of Rosewood, Maybourne and the Oetker Collection, with three hotels each. As for the world's leading hotels, they also feature on the list with the Park Hyatt Kyoto, a Six Senses resort for IHG and two hotels for Accor - the Savoy in London and the Raffles in Singapore - and even almost three if we add the prestigious Scottish resort Gleneagles, owned by its subsidiary Ennismore.
While it is more than unlikely that the '50 best hotels' filter will one day appear in corporate booking tools, given that the prices charged by these establishments are only aimed at the gotha of the business world, this ranking does leave us with some doubts. room to dreamA night out or a simple cocktail in one of the most civilised places in the world.
