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Best Western Hotels are the top employers in Austria

Apr 10, 2020

Best Western Hotels are top employers: In the current ranking “The 300 best employers in Austria”, the Best Western branded hotels are among the three best employers in the hotel industry in Austria. The survey was carried out by the magazine trend in cooperation with Statista, kununu and Xing and takes into account more than 200,000 ratings from employees of Austria’s largest companies.

Best Western Hotels are among the top employers in Austria. This is the result of the survey “The 300 best employers in Austria”, which the magazine trend conducted in cooperation with Statista, kununu and Xing. Thus, the Best Western Hotels in Austria, which were included in the ranking for the first time this year, ranking third in the hotel industry behind Austria Trend Hotels and Motel One. Furthermore, Best Western Hotels are among the top 25 newcomers across all industries in Austria. For the ranking, more than 200,000 evaluations by the employees of Austria’s largest companies were taken into account. Best Western Hotels can be found together with other establishments in the category “Tourism, Accommodation, Entertainment and Leisure”.

Marcus Smola

CEO of BWH Hotel Group Central Europe

“Together with our hoteliers, we are very proud that our Best Western Hotels in Austria were rated so outstanding and as top employers. We are very honoured, especially as the good ratings come directly from our employees. I would, therefore, like to express my special thanks – also on behalf of our hotel managers and operators in Austria – to all the employees on-site in the hotels,” say Marcus Smola, CEO of BWH Hotel Group Central Europe, based in Eschborn, Germany, and Ivona Meissner, who is responsible for the hotel group’s office in Vienna. “Criteria such as working climate, corporate culture or working conditions have a considerable influence on today’s choice of the employer in addition to good pay and career opportunities – so we are very pleased that as a group of privately managed hotels we have been able to achieve a top ranking within our industry. And even in the current very critical situation due to the Corona crisis, our hoteliers and employees are showing a particularly high level of commitment and solidarity with each other and with the brand, so that we will master this difficult time together”.

Excellent employer also in Central Europe

Already at the end of last year, the Best Western Hotels in Austria were awarded: as “Service Champions 2019” in a cross-industry ranking of over 400 companies in the country. The Best Western Hotels in Switzerland were also honored with the same award. In addition, the BWH Hotel Group Central Europe, which takes care of approvimately 300 hotels in ten European countries, recently recorded further successes and awards in terms of employer quality, for example in Germany. In the survey “Germany’s Best Employers 2020” conducted by the news magazine Stern in cooperation with Statista, the group of individual hotels was ranked among the top 10 employers in the category “Gastronomy, Leisure, Hotels and Tourism” and achieved the bronze rank among Germany’s best employers among the hotel brands. The German daily newspapers F.A.Z. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and DIE WELT have also consistently ranked Best Western Hotels in Germany among the best and most sought-after employers in the hotel industry for two years in a row.