Survey: 20 hotel brands with top customer experience ratings - Airbnb among them

Holiday Inn Express and Marriott deliver the best customer experience in the hotel industry, according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual customer experience benchmark of companies based on a survey of 10,000 United States consumers.  

Out of the 20 hospitality companies included in this year's Ratings, Holiday Inn Express and Marriott tied for the top spot. Each earned a score of 78% and came in 34th place overall out of 318 companies across 20 industries. Hampton Inn won the third place spot with a rating of 76% and an overall rank of 51st.

Overall, the hotel industry averaged a 70% rating in the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings and came in 7th place out of 20 industries. The average rating of the industry declined by 0.6 percentage-points between 2017 and 2018, falling from 70.2% to 69.6%.

The ratings of all hospitality companies in the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings are as follows:

1. Holiday Inn Express: 78%
2. Marriott: 78%
3. Hampton Inn: 76%
4. Hilton: 74%
5. Courtyard By Marriott: 73%
6. Residence Inn: 73%
7. Hyatt: 72%
8. Wyndham: 71%
9. Best Western: 71%
10. Holiday Inn: 70%
11. Sheraton: 69%
12. La Quinta Inn: 68%
13. Airbnb: 67%
14. Super 8: 67%
15. Fairfield Inn: 66%
16. Crowne Plaza: 65%
17. Comfort Inn: 64%
18. Quality Inn: 62%
19. Motel 6: 57%
20. Days Inn: 56%

"Every year there's a battle across hotel chains for the customer experience crown, but we have to give special credit to Marriott for being at or near the top since 2011," notes Bruce Temkin, managing partner of Temkin Group.

Airbnb's customer experience score improved the most during the previous year, gaining 11 points. Fairfield Inn's score, on the other hand, declined the most, dropping by nine points.

Now in its eighth year of publication, the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings is the most comprehensive benchmark of customer experience in the industry, evaluating 318 companies from 20 industries: airlines, auto dealers, banks, computer & tablet makers, credit card issuers, fast food chains, health plans, hotels & rooms, insurance carriers, investment firms, parcel delivery services, rental cars & transport, retailers, software firms, streaming media, supermarket chains, TV & appliance makers, TV/Internet service providers, utilities, and wireless carriers.

To generate these ratings, Temkin Group asked 10,000 U.S. consumers to evaluate their recent experiences with a company across three dimensions: success (can you do what you want to do?), effort (how easy is it to work with the company?), and emotion (how do you feel about the interactions?). Temkin Group then averaged these three scores to come up with each company's Temkin Experience Rating.

In these ratings, a score of 70% or above is considered "good," and a score of 80% or above is considered "excellent," while a score below 60% is deemed "poor."

The 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings, along with other ratings, can be accessed at the Temkin Ratings website, www.TemkinRatings.com.

The free report, "2018 Temkin Experience Ratings," is available for download at the Customer Experience Matters® blog (ExperienceMatters.blog) and at the Temkin Group website, www.TemkinGroup.com.

About Temkin Group: Temkin Group is a leading customer experience research, consulting, and training firm. Many of the world's largest brands rely on its insights and advice to steer their transformational journeys, and Temkin Group accelerates their results by combining customer experience thought leadership with a deep understanding of organizational dynamics. Rather than layering on cosmetic changes, Temkin Group helps companies embed practices within their culture by building up four core competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Employee Engagement, Compelling Brand Values, and Customer Connectedness. The firm's ongoing research identifies leading and emerging best practices for engaging the hearts and minds of customers, employees, and partners. For more information, contact Bruce Temkin at 617-916-2075 or send an email to 192609@email4pr.com.

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