MEETINGS STAR 2020
Since its inception, the Meetings Star Award (Congress Star) has become a recognisable trademark inside the meetings industry and one of the few awards based on comprehensive criteria and standards. The award is awarded by Kongres Magazine and Conventa to the best congress destinations, hotels and congress centres in New Europe.
BEST MEETING HOTELS between VENICE and BAKU, and MUNICH and ISTANBUL
Meetings Star is a quality evaluation system which gives a simple and clear answer about the services of individual venues as it is based on the Hidden Congress Guest gradings.
In each category hotels have been classified into three sub-categories according to the number of points achieved in the hidden congress guest’s evaluation:
GOLD final score from 4.81 to 5.00
SILVER final score from 4.61 to 4.80
BRONZE final score from 4.41 to 4.60
At Kongres Magazine, we are exclusively revealing certificate recipients in the individual categories for the first time. We have certificated a total of 209 hotels and convention centres in 2020; among them, city meeting hotels made up the biggest share.
GOLD CITY MEETING HOTELS 2020
PARISI UDVAR 4.96
RITZ CARLTON BUDAPEST 4.95
HOTEL CORINTHIA BUDAPEST 4.94
FOUR SEASONS HOTEL BAKU 4.92
HOTEL SHERATON SALZBURG 4.89
HILTON BAKU HOTEL 4.89
FAIRMONT BAKU FLAME TOWERS 4.89
HILTON BELGRADE 4.88
MAMA SHELTER BELGRADE 4.87
BAKU MARRIOTT HOTEL BOULEVARD 4.86
HOTEL GRANDE BRETAGNE 4.85
HILTON IMPERIAL DUBROVNIK 4.84
THE PLAZA TIRANA 4.84
RADISSON COLLECTION OLD MILL HOTEL 4.83
GRAND HOTEL RIVER PARK 4.83
HOTEL INTERCONTINENTAL LJUBLJANA 4.82
HYATT REGENCY SOFIA 4.81
GRAND HOTEL UNION 4.81
SILVER CITY MEETING HOTELS 2020
HOTEL IMLAUER 4.80
HILTON PODGORICA 4.79
HOTEL PARK SPLIT 4.79
METROPOL PALACE BELGRADE 4.79
ROGNER HOTEL TIRANA 4.78
HOTEL WIESLER 4.78
W ISTANBUL 4.77
SHERATON NOVI SAD 4.77
INTERCONTINENTAL BUCHAREST HOTEL 4.75
CENTREVILLE PODGORICA 4.71
DOUBLETREE BY HILTON BRATISLAVA 4.71
HOTEL HILLS 4.71
HILTON ATHENS 4.70
CANOPY BY HILTON ZAGREB 4.70
HOTEL EUROPE SARAJEVO 4.70
BEST WESTERN PREMIER HOTEL SLON 4.69
HOTEL EXCELSIOR & SPA DUBROVNIK 4.69
SENSE HOTEL SOFIA 4.67
INTERCONTINENTAL SOFIA 4.67
HOTEL WESTIN ZAGREB 4.67
FALKENSTEINER HOTEL BRATISLAVA 4.66
HOTEL SAVOIA EXCELSIOR PALACE 4.65
RADISSON BLU PLAZA LJUBLJANA 4.65
HOTEL LEV 4.64
uHOTEL 4.63
HOTEL STEIGENBERGER MUNICH 4.63
25HOURS HOTEL VIENNA 4.63
DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ZAGREB 4.61
BRONZE CITY MEETING HOTELS 2020
LOFT HOTEL 4.58
SEEPARK HOTEL KLAGENFURT 4.56
PERLA CASINO & HOTEL 4.55
BEST WESTERN PLUS HOTEL EXPO 4.53
ATHENAUM INTERCONTINENTAL ATHENS 4.52
SOFIA HOTEL BALKAN, A LUXURY COLLECTION HOTEL 4.51
CROWNE PLAZA BELGRADE 4.50
HOTEL CORNARO SPLIT 4.49
HILTON GARDEN INN TIRANA 4.47
AUSTRIA TREND HOTEL 4.47
RADISSON BLU CARLTON BRATISLAVA 4.47
FALKENSTEINER HOTEL BELGRADE 4.47
BEST WESTERN PREMIER HOTEL LOVEC 4.45
HYATT REGENCY BELGRADE 4.44
HOTEL YASMIN 4.44
CITY HOTEL LJUBLJANA 4.42
HOTEL SHERATON ZAGREB 4.41
FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON LJUBLJANA MONS 4.41
HOTEL GALLERIA SUBOTICA 4.40
comparing the best of the best
In the name of the entire team behind Congress Star certification, I want to congratulate all hotels for being placed among the best-certified hotels in 2020. It is a testament to excellent service and confirmation of your hotel or congress product’s quality. The project continues optimistically in 2021, and as soon as conditions allow, our hidden guest assessors will start evaluating hotels once again.
“Our project is annually carried out to raise quality and to create a tool for comparing the best of the best (benchmark). When evaluating hotels, we follow an extensive and intricate methodology that has been extremely well accepted among event organisers. We carry great responsibility regarding the project. However, it is a burden we carry with ease, as the methodology is reliable and credible. Consequently, all our final marks are based on concrete arguments.”
Gorazd Čad, Editor in Chief of Kongres Magazine
All evaluated hotels were added to our venue finder, which after only a month, became the most visited part of our website. You can find all hotels here: https://kongres-magazine.eu/search-venues/
