The Connoisseur Circle Rating "The Best Hotels" is the only rating in Europe whose objective evaluation concept consisting of TrustYou, public voting and a jury of experts is applied in a standardized manner across four countries and is used as an important decision-making aid for potential guests.

Hand on heart:
Which expert can claim to have put all the hotels in a country through their paces - especially when it comes to the best hotels? Connoisseur Circle has been sending experienced travel editors and hospitality professionals all over the world for 10 years to provide its readers with first-hand expert reports and tests. Nevertheless, a test result is and will always remain subjective and therefore dependent on the personal impression and signature of the expert. Perhaps the most profound is the combination of objective data with subjective impressions and experiences. This is precisely why Connoisseur Circle has once again broadened the basis for its "Best Hotels" rating by drawing on the results of the best "satisfaction tester" in the world: TrustYou www.trustyou.com


-- From certain test factors specified by Connoisseur Circle
the editorial team works with the digital professionals from TrustYou to determine a data set that serves as the basis for the final selection.

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Unique standardized rating across 4 countries (AT, CH, D, South Tyrol) in different categories.

Established for 15 years as a decision-making aid for guests with an affinity for luxury and travel professionals.

Integration of the Trust you Score - the world's largest data collection for guest ratings.

Transparent, reliable and neutral.

Combines objective data sets with the evaluation of experienced hospitality professionals and a large-scale online voting for guests.


Published annually .


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