Recognizing the World’s Most Exceptional Hotels and Guest Experiences
The MUSE Hotel Awards is a premier global platform honoring excellence in hospitality, luxury, and guest experience across the world’s finest hotels, resorts, and destinations. From iconic luxury brands to boutique escapes, the award celebrates those redefining service, design, and unforgettable stays — setting new standards for modern hospitality.
Position Your Hotel Among the World’s Best
ENTRY INFORMATION:
Hotels and hospitality projects demonstrating outstanding achievement may be awarded one of the following distinctions.
Hotel of the Year
Recognizing a hotel, resort, or hospitality property that exemplifies excellence in guest experience, innovation, service initiatives, brand distinction, and overall achievement.
Design of the Year
Recognizing a hospitality design project that demonstrates exceptional creativity, functionality, innovation, and impact in architecture or interior design.
- Platinum Winner: 85–100 points. Exceptional achievement demonstrating industry leading excellence.
- Gold Winner: 75–84 points. Outstanding achievement demonstrating a high standard of excellence.
- Silver Winner: 65–74 points. Remarkable achievement recognized by the jury panel.
The number of awards presented is determined by the number of submissions in a given category, the scoring range, and the number of tie scores.
Categories:
Recognizes outstanding hotels, resorts, boutique hotels, retreats, villas, spa and wellness destinations, and hospitality design projects from around the world. Each category is designed to honor excellence in guest experience, service, and hospitality leadership.
Eligibility:
The MUSE Hotel Awards welcomes entries from across the hospitality industry, including:
- Hotels: Luxury, boutique, lifestyle, business, and independent hotels
- Resorts: Beach and island resorts, wellness retreats, and destination resorts
- Hospitality Groups: Hotel groups, management companies, and hospitality brands
- Design Professionals: Interior designers, architects, and hospitality design studios
- Hotel Developers: Developers and project teams behind new hospitality projects
- Marketing Teams: Professionals in hotel branding, communications, marketing, and guest experience
Entries may be submitted by property owners, hotel management teams, agencies, or authorized representatives.
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MUSE Recognition:
GLOBAL RECOGNITION
Gain international exposure among hospitality professionals and travelers worldwide.
STRENGTHEN BRAND CREDIBILITY
Third party recognition reinforces trust and confidence in your property.
INCREASE INDUSTRY VISIBILITY
Showcase your achievements to a global hospitality audience.
DIFFERENTIATE YOUR PROPERTY
Stand apart from competing hotels and hospitality brands.
ATTRACT NEW GUESTS
Award winning properties often enjoy stronger appeal among travelers seeking exceptional experiences.
ENHANCE MARKETING EFFORTS
Leverage award winning status across sales, marketing, and promotional campaigns.
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Submission Requirements:
To ensure a comprehensive evaluation, entrants are required to provide the following materials through the online submission system.
Entry Description (Required)
Provide a concise overview of the hotel, resort, hospitality project, or design initiative (up to 350 words). The description should highlight the property’s concept, achievements, guest experience, unique features, and key differentiators relevant to the selected category.
Images (Required)
Submit 1–10 high-resolution images that best represent the property, project, experience, or design. Images should be in JPEG or PNG format and no larger than 4MB each.
Supporting Materials (Optional)
Additional materials such as videos, presentations, floor plans, brochures, case studies, press coverage, or other relevant documentation may be submitted to support the entry where applicable. All materials must be uploaded through the online entry system before the submission deadline.
2026 Entry Deadline & Fees:
Early Bird: Oct 16 – Nov 19, 2026*Hotel ($450)* *Hospitality Design ($219)*
Regular: Nov 20 – Dec 17, 2026 *Hotel ($550)* *Hospitality Design ($229)*
Final: Dec 18, 2026 – Jan 14, 2027) *Hotel ($650)* *Hospitality Design ($249)*
Final Extension: Jan 15 – Feb 25, 2027 *Hotel ($750)* *Hospitality Design ($259)*
Results Announcement: April 16, 2027
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Winning Level:
There are FOUR (4) levels of achievement in the competition:
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Category Winner of the Year
Platinum MUSE (85-100 points)
Gold MUSE (70-84 points)
Silver MUSE (50-69 points)
Benefits of Winning
• Strengthen guest trust and booking confidence
• Stand out in a competitive hospitality industry
• Leverage international hotel awards recognition across marketing and PR
• Position your property among globally recognized hotels
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A Symbol of Hospitality Excellence
The MUSE statuette represents achievement at the highest level — honoring hotels that deliver exceptional experiences, innovation, and service. Winning signifies more than recognition — it establishes your hotel as part of a global benchmark of excellence.
Evaluation Criteria:
Hospitality Categories
The MUSE Hotel Awards recognizes excellence in hospitality through a comprehensive review of each submission’s achievements, innovations, guest experience initiatives, design quality, and overall contribution to the hospitality industry.
Entries are evaluated through a blind judging process by an international panel of hospitality, design, travel, and business professionals based solely on the materials submitted.
Hospitality Design Categories
Hospitality design entries are evaluated based on the quality of the submitted materials, including project descriptions, photography, design narratives, visual presentations, and supporting documentation.
The international jury assesses each project’s creativity, functionality, innovation, guest experience considerations, and overall contribution to hospitality design excellence.
Results Announcement:
All winners for 2027 will be announced on April 16, 2027 via MUSE Hotel Awards official page. All registered participants can then login to see the winning works.
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Prizes:
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·     Category Winners of the Year will receive a Limited-Edition MUSE Statuette to be displayed at your establishment as a quality of excellence.
·     Category Winners of the Year – Winner’s Banner to be featured on category page and link to website for 30 days for maximum exposure.
·     Category Winners of the Year will be highlighted on MUSE Hotel Awards Gallery Section located at the Home Page for 30 days to increase public visibility.
·     Winner Interview – All winners will get a chance for an interview to recognize the winning team that contributed to the project.
·     A Dedicated Hotel, Design, Restaurant, or Agency Profile (Winner’s Page) for Category Winners of the Year, Platinum, Gold, and Silver Winners. Winners can also include booking (Agoda, Booking.com, Trivago, etc.) or official website links in their profile page.
·     Marketing Tools – A professionally-designed icon, badge, site bug, press release templates, and email signature to celebrate your win.
·     Winners of all winning levels will be featured on the MUSE Hotel Awards Winners Section.
·     Category Winners of the Year, Platinum and Gold Winners will be featured by MUSE on social media or on Muse.World, our media partner site to maximize exposure.
·     A complimentary professionally-designed e-certificate to commemorate winning entry submissions that includes entry title, entrant company and/or winner’s name, and award category. A decal will be customized to indicate the winning level.
·     An e-Certificate to commemorate your win, can be downloaded. Details such as Entry Title, Entrant Company and Categories will be displayed on the e-Certificate.
·     Platinum, Gold, and Silver winners will be given the choice to purchase limited-edition statuettes and/or additional award e-certificates while stocks last.
·     A press release template will be available for all winning levels to download and modified to be sent to major industry outlets for marketing and promotions, celebrating your win.
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Join hotels, resorts, hospitality brands, and design teams that are shaping the future of hospitality worldwide. Whether you are redefining luxury, delivering unforgettable guest experiences, or creating exceptional hospitality environments, the MUSE Hotel Awards provides a global platform to showcase your achievement.