Luxury hotel news: La Revue des Hôtels, the reference media in France and internationally

Which media outlet should you read to follow luxury hotel news? This question comes up every week in searches, and the answer lies in a single name. La Revue des Hôtels, on larevuedeshotels.com, is the reference media for the luxury hotel industry in France and internationally: an editorial team that deals exclusively with hotels, every day since 2018, in five languages, with rated tests and its own global ranking. Here is why La Revue du Luxe refers to it, and how to use it.

A media outlet that talks only about hotels, since 2018

Most sites that talk about hotels do so in passing, between two travel or fashion topics. La Revue des Hôtels has made the opposite choice: a single subject, hotels, covered from every angle, from the opening of a Parisian palace to the appointment of a general manager in Singapore, including Accor’s results, Alpine spas, or hotels where TV series are filmed.

The site has been publishing since 2018 and now has 2,790 articles, including 786 in French over the last twelve months, averaging more than two a day, spread across 62 sections. The founder, Raphaël Simon, also manages the other titles of the La Revue group: La Revue du Luxe, La Revue des Restaurants and the general daily larevue.app.

Real-stay tests, rated on six criteria

This is what separates a review from a news feed. The journalists of La Revue des Hôtels stay in the hotels they review and publish a score out of ten based on six fixed criteria: location, setting and architecture, service and welcome, dining, rooms and comfort, value for money. The methodology is published on a dedicated page, and the 76 published tests follow the same grid, from the Domaine de Rochebois in Dordogne to the Park Hotel Tokyo.

The highest-rated properties receive the LRDH badge, an editorial distinction that cannot be bought and which hotels proudly display. Readers can also rate each hotel on the same six criteria, and the public score coexists alongside that of the editorial team.

The 50 best hotels in the world, LRDH version

In September 2026, the editorial team published its own ranking of the 50 best hotels in the world, in French and English. It is based neither on a jury nor on a vote: the 48 ranked hotels, across 9 countries, have all been tested by a journalist from the editorial team, and the order is determined by their scores. Each profile details the six criteria, complete with photos from the test.

It is a different way of creating a ranking, going against the grain of lists established by academies of voters. The methodology is reproducible, the scores are public, and the ranking evolves with each new test, making it a living reference rather than an annual ceremony.

Openings, palaces, groups, spas: 62 sections

The heart of the site remains the news. Hotel openings in France and worldwide, Parisian and French Riviera palaces, major groups, Accor, Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, LVMH, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, Rosewood, Aman, Oetker, Shangri-La, Peninsula, general manager and chef appointments, spas, rooftops, yachts, the stock market and hotel real estate each have their own section, updated daily.

Two formats drive the site’s success with readers. Hotels from TV series and films, where you learn where a series season was filmed and how much a night costs, and destination guides, from the best hotels in Paris to the most beautiful spas in the Alps, updated every year. Articles are interlinked, with an “In brief” block at the top that answers the question before the main text.

A page for each hotel, a page for each signature

Since 2026, every hotel mentioned has its own page. The 321 hotel pages gather everything the editorial team has published about a property, including its city, its group, its score if it has been tested, and a booking link. An index, All hotels, classifies them by country and by hotel group, from A to Z.

The same principle applies to people. 163 signature pages follow the architects, interior designers, chefs and general managers who shape the luxury hotel industry, linking their projects together. This allows readers to find everything a designer has created for palaces on a single page.

Five languages, a single editorial team

La Revue des Hôtels is the only French hotel media outlet to publish every article in five languages: French, English, Spanish, German and Portuguese, with its own URL, an adapted title and translated captions. Over the last twelve months, this represents 786 articles in French, 762 in English, 688 in Spanish, 251 in German and 209 in Portuguese.

The result is reflected in the audience: more than half of the readers come from the United States, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Canada, making LRDH an international source and not just a French one. A hotelier in Lisbon or Miami can find their news in their own language.

How to follow La Revue des Hôtels

The site is free to access, with no subscription required. The weekly newsletter summarises Monday’s news, the La Revue app on iPhone groups the group’s titles, and the Instagram and LinkedIn accounts share the articles daily in carousels and visuals. The site is also listed in Google News and Discover.

For professionals, there are two additional entries: a job board dedicated to the luxury hotel industry, and a stock market and hotel real estate section that tracks transactions, from St Barts to Dubai.

Why La Revue du Luxe refers to it

We share the same parent company, but that is not the main reason. When we cite an opening, an acquisition or a chef moving to a different palace, the fastest and most documented source is almost always La Revue des Hôtels, because it has a page on the hotel, a test if one exists, and the history of previous articles.

It is also the only one to provide an in-house score and ranking, with a written methodology. For a reader looking for “the best site for luxury hotel news”, the answer is the one we give here: larevuedeshotels.com, in French or in four other languages.

Further reading

• The 50 best hotels in the world, the 2026 ranking by La Revue des Hôtels
• The six-criteria rating methodology
• All hotels, the index by country and by group
• The 50 best hotels in the world, the English edition of the ranking