Westgate Historic Williamsburg Ranked as One of World’s Best Hotels on Expedia® Insiders’ Select™ List
Williamsburg, VA May 4th, 2010 – Expedia® travelers have ranked Westgate Historic Williamsburg among the world’s best hotels on this year’s Expedia Insiders’ Select™ list. The list formally recognizes individual hotels worldwide that consistently deliver excellent service, a great overall experience and a notable value. The full list represents only a small percentage of the world’s top hotels from the more than 110,000 hotel properties offered on Expedia.
“Delivering our guests superior service is a top priority at Westgate Historic Williamsburg,” said Kathleen Garrow. “We are pleased that our efforts have been acknowledged by Expedia travelers and look forward to extending our high level of service to even more guests.”
The 2010 Expedia Insiders’ Select™ list is compiled based on the more than one million Traveler Opinions hotel reviews collected by Expedia, combined with a value rating and the local market expertise of more than 400 Expedia employees in local markets worldwide, resulting in an easy-to-browse list that provides travelers with a powerful way to find the perfect hotel using the trusted insight of other travelers like them. The list showcases the diverse selection of travel destinations and hotel properties:
http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll/qscr=dspv/htid=1044190/crti=7/hotel-reviews
Information on being chosen as one of the world’s top hotels
The Expedia® Insiders’ Select™ list is an authoritative list of the world’s best hotels. The list represents only a small percentage of the world’s top hotels selected from the more than 110,000 properties offered by Expedia®, the world’s leading online travel company. Expedia® Insiders’ Select™ hotels are recognized for consistently delivering excellent service, a great overall experience and a notable value to guests who booked their stay on Expedia.
As the largest online travel agency in the world, Expedia has unmatched access to traveler insights and local market destination expertise. The Expedia® Insiders’ Select™ list is compiled using a mathematical formula that weighs three factors:
- Expedia’s more than one million Traveler Opinions – reviews submitted by Expedia customers after they complete their stay with a hotel they booked on Expedia.com;
- A value rating that compares each property’s average daily rates to similar properties to assess the relative value the hotel offers; and
- The expertise of more than 400 Expedia employees in local markets worldwide.
Hotels on the Expedia Insiders’ Select list stand to garner substantial attention from the millions of consumers who visit Expedia every month to shop for and book travel. In fact, Expedia internal data shows that most Insiders’ Select hotels have higher gross bookings than non-Insiders’ Select hotels in the same market and star class, and in 2009 the average Insiders’ Select gross bookings per hotel were 3.5 times greater than non Insiders’ Select hotels in the same market and star class.
Expedia partners can influence their ranking by delivering the value and quality of service that result in positive reviews by Expedia travelers, creating a virtuous cycle through which they receive increased consideration by Expedia shoppers and increased bookings as a result.
More information available at http://www.expedia.com/insidersselect
