For the third year in a row, Mandarin Oriental has been named the “World’s Best Luxury Hotel Brand.” The rankings, as produced by Luxury Travel Intelligence (LTI), weighs 130 touchpoints to score luxury hotel brands out of a possible 4,663 points. These “touchpoints”—which include “a brand’s ability to uphold its passion, commitment, ethos and values, alongside the quality of its management and staff”—are geared toward the brand level, not the individual properties.

Mandarin Oriental has once again been named the year’s top luxury hotel brand in the Luxury Travel Intelligence annual ranking.

LTI – Luxury Travel Intelligence has revealed the top 12 luxury hotel brands in the world for 2019. The results are based on a rigorously defined algorithm, LTI says, that measures the performance and values of luxury hotel brands. That algorithm encompasses over 120 touch points relevant to the high-end hotel sector.