Cvent’s annual lists highlight top performing group business hotels worldwide
During IMEX Frankfurt 2019, we released our annual lists of Top Meeting Hotels for meetings and events worldwide. For the second year running, it’s Hilton Prague that tops the list for Europe. The top 10 European hotels as per this year’s Cvent list are:
- Hilton Prague
- MeliáCastilla Hotel & Convention Center Madrid
- InterContinental Vienna
- Hilton Barcelona
- Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile
- Hilton Diagonal Mar Barcelona
- Le Méridien Etoile
- Sheraton Roma Hotel & Conference Center
- Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre
- Hilton London Metropole
The list was compiled by analysing meeting and event booking activity through the Cvent Supplier Network (CSN), one of the world’s largest venue sourcing platforms. More than $16 billion and more than 42 million room nights were sourced through the CSN in 2018. Our lists rank hotels based on MICE business performance according to various criteria, including total requests for proposals (RFPs) and conversion rate.
The lists include top hotels in the US, across Europe, the Middle East & Africa and Asia Pacific. To help support buyer preferences, this year we unveiled additional Top Meeting Hotel lists which segment hotels further based on commonly searched attributes including meeting space square footage and region-specific locales. These lists include: Top 25 Independent Meeting Hotels in the United States, Top 25 Meeting Hotels in Australia, and Top 50 Meeting Hotels in Germany, among others.
Chris McAndrews, Cvent’s Vice President of Marketing for our Hospitality Cloud said “The hotels featured on this year’s lists are elevating their MICE business strategy through innovative digital marketing and quick and complete online responses to RFPs – which is exactly what event professionals want. Our Top Meeting Hotels lists are consistently used by event organisers to find great hotels and by hoteliers looking to set themselves apart to increase their property’s MICE business revenue.”
Europe List Highlights
- Hilton Prague retained its number one position as the Top Meeting Hotel.
- Hilton properties took four of the top 10 spots for generating the most group business in Europe: Hilton Prague, Hilton Barcelona, Hilton Diagonal Mar Barcelona, and Hilton London Metropole in that order.
- Seven unique countries make up the top ten rankings: Austria, Czech Republic, England, France, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain.
- Spain and Germany represent the largest selection of hotels on the list with 12 and 8 respectively, in the Top 50, including the following chains and brands:
- AccorHotels, Hilton, IHG, Marriott International Hotels, Meliá Hotels International, NH Hotel Group, and Radisson Hotel Group.
- Marriott, Hilton, and IHG (in that order) are the top three hotel chains represented on the Top 50 list.
