Best Loved Hotels and the International Travel Trade

Since its inception the founders of Best Loved have been committed to empowering travel professionals to realize their full potential. In fact, Best Loved was originally created and designed for travel agents and over the last 12 years this commitment has been most evident in the overwhelming distribution of over 200,000 copies of the book to the international travel trade.

Best Loved Hotels sees itself as publishers. In that role, it is our job to provide travel professionals with the best available and easy to use information with respect to specific destinations about Places to stay, Things to do and Places to See.

Best Loved Hotels is not a Hotel Representative or a Marketing Consortium and does not have any control over the operation of any hotel, site, or service appearing on bestlovedhotels.com or in Best Loved Hotels the book.

BEST LOVED’S VIEW OF THE TRADE

With over 20 years direct experience in dealing with travel professionals we have realised the following:-

• Planning and making travel arrangements continues to be a complicated and stressful exercise for most consumers.
• Travel consultants have an important role to play in assisting the public with all their travel planning needs. A true travel consultant/professional is someone who actually consults with and works directly on behalf of their clients.
• Individual Travel consultants are more important than the agencies or offices for which they work. In other words, travel consultants plan and book travel - offices do not.
• Travel Professionals deserve to be compensated by all travel suppliers if an arrangement for remuneration has been agreed between the travel consultant and the supplier. All remuneration should be paid in a timely and easy to administer way.
• Travel Professionals have an obligation to their clients, as well as to suppliers to act in a most professional manner in all aspects of their job.

RECEIVING YOUR COPY OF BEST LOVED HOTELS

Given the above, Best Loved guarantees that all qualified travel professionals should receive an annual, personal copy of Best Loved Hotels – UK/Ireland for their use as well as having access to specific travel trade data in order to work on behalf of their clients.

CREATING YOUR MYBESTLOVED Profile

To that end all travel trade recipients of Best Loved Hotels are asked to register their copy of Best Loved and/or create a MyBestLoved Profile for use on the bestlovedhotels.com website.

EXCLUSIVE MEMBERSHIP IN BEST LOVED’s 5 Hearts Club

By registering and creating a MyBestLoved Profile you will be given membership to our 5 Hearts Club for travel professionals. The benefits include:

• Access to special bestlovedhotels.com travel trade related content (e.g. Commission schedules)
• Access to non-hotel content with over 1,000 Places to See and Things to Do
• Specially designed Conference and Event Search system
• Exclusive Best Loved Hotels special offers for travel trade professionals
• Specially organized Product Awareness Trips to Best Loved Hotels
• Insured receipt of future editions of Best Loved Hotels
• Access to our Expert Advisory Team for those difficult questions"