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89 – Clarifying the Hotel Brand Ecosystem

  • Martin Soler
  • 2 January 2025
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So the Hotel Brand Pyramid sparked a bunch of debates and disagreements. It is time to remedy that, and I’m welcoming your feedback to make it better. Happy 2025!

Hello,

Happy 2025! During the holidays I posted the Hotel Brand Pyramid, I had seen the chart presented by the CEO of Leonardo hotels to explain how their hotels fit the categories. It turns out this pyramid was actually published by Jestafreak some time ago.

I found it to be a very practical look at how the brands compare, but it is missing plenty of brands and categorization of the ones on the chart are up for discussion.

I’ve been trying to think of a way to collect a more complete list, but it isn’t that easy. So I wanted to solicit the readers to get your input. Below are the main posts on the topic. Your feedback is welcome.

Best, Martin

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1. What are hotel “brands”?

Some time ago I wrote a post on LinkedIn about brands, what they are and what is a hotel “brand” compared to a regular consumer brand. Hotel brands don’t behave the same way, especially because they lack consistency over time and in geographical locations. A Marriott in the US created 20 years ago, is very different from a Marriott in Singapore created last year.

2. Clarifying hotel brands in a pyramid

A few weeks ago I published the Hotel Brand pyramid chart which sparked quite a lot of debate online. Between my own post and the post from a Director of F&B at Accor the comments clearly show that there is confusion, and that the pyramid is very incomplete. I believe it is time to make a more complete hotel brand pyramid.

3. So what is missing?

There are two main points that need some clarification. The first is what are the real categories we should use? The following are some: Ultra Luxury, Luxury, Upper Upscale, Upscale, Midscale and Economy, but are they the right ones? I don’t like Upper Upscale as a name, that could be renamed to Premium. The second point is that there are so many regional players. How could a pyramid be more inclusive without being a washing list of single hotels? Where should the cut-off be? A certain number of rooms? A certain number of hotels?

This is where all help would be welcome. Comment on this post with your suggestions for brands that should be included and if possible a link to their website so I can review them and try to calculate their size.

Alternately, comment on the LinkedIn post with your thoughts/brands/input so I can include it in a broader pyramid.

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