Travel should stay with you.
The best hotels do more than give us a place to sleep.
They introduce us to a destination. They change our pace. They create moments we keep talking about long after we return home.
That belief has guided The Hotel Guide since 1993.
Founded in San Antonio, Texas, The Hotel Guide began as a print publication and has grown into a global luxury and boutique travel platform reaching travelers, travel professionals and hospitality leaders across digital editorial, social media, video, podcasting and strategic brand intelligence.
Today, our work has two clear purposes:
To help travelers discover places and experiences worth remembering.
And to help exceptional hospitality brands build the authority they deserve.
More Than a Travel Magazine
The Hotel Guide is no longer simply a publication.
Our platform includes:
- The Hotel Guide quarterly digital magazine
- Luxury and boutique hotel storytelling
- Destination, wellness, culinary and cruise editorial
- Travel Talk podcast
- The THG Luxury Travel Club
- Social and video content
- Executive interviews and hospitality thought leadership
- The THG Hospitality Index™
Together, this ecosystem reaches more than 24 million travelers, travel professionals and hospitality decision-makers annually.
But reach alone is not the point.
We care about influence—helping shape where travelers want to go, which brands they trust and what experiences they remember.
Curated Travel. Personal Guidance.
The internet has made travel easier to search, but harder to choose.
There are more hotels, more reviews and more recommendations than ever. Much of it looks and sounds the same.
The Hotel Guide helps cut through that noise.
We focus on luxury and boutique properties with a strong sense of place, meaningful experiences and a story worth telling. Through our alignment with Boutique Travel Advisors, a Virtuoso® member, we can also help travelers plan and book many of the stays featured throughout our platform.
We do not want to simply inspire the journey.
We want to help make it happen.
Building Authority in Hospitality
Luxury hospitality has never looked better. It has also never been more difficult to distinguish one beautiful property from another.
That challenge led to the creation of the THG Hospitality Index™—our proprietary framework for evaluating the strategic factors that build long-term hospitality authority.
The Index looks beyond amenities and traditional ratings to examine eight areas:
- Narrative Differentiation
- Emotional Positioning
- Cultural Identity
- Executive Visibility
- Experience Originality
- Editorial Readiness
- Digital Authority
- Partnership Alignment
The goal is not to create another award.
It is to help hospitality leaders understand what their brands truly own, where they are becoming interchangeable and what must be strengthened to lead their category.
Led by Experience
The Hotel Guide is led by Edward R. Leos, CEO and Publisher, host of the Travel Talk podcast and creator of the THG Hospitality Index™.
Edward has spent more than 33 years in hospitality media, publishing, leadership and brand development. His work has always come back to the same idea: travel matters because experiences matter.
The Hotel Guide reflects that point of view.
We are interested in the places that make people feel something. The leaders willing to think differently. The hospitality brands with an identity that cannot be copied.
What We Stand For
We do not chase clicks.
We influence decisions.
We do not sell empty impressions.
We build authority.
We do not believe every beautiful hotel is memorable.
We look for the ones that are.
Help People. Elevate Hospitality. Leave a Legacy.
That is the work.
That is The Hotel Guide.
Explore The Hotel Guide
Discover exceptional hotels, destinations and experiences.
Plan your next journey through the THG Luxury Travel Club.
Listen to Travel Talk.
Explore the latest edition.
Learn more about the THG Hospitality Index™.
For partnership, editorial or media inquiries, contact:
Edward R. Leos
CEO & Publisher, The Hotel Guide
[email protected]