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The death of the hotel star rating system?

by Rajul on January 10, 2011

Checklist-based star rating systems were historically the natural way to rank and classify hotels.  When the Savoy opened in London in 1889 it was seen as the ultimate luxury hotel: features like electric lifts and individual bathrooms were a genuine novelty and the epitome of indulgence. As competitors in the next century caught up or [...]

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