2025 Noble World Hotel Awards

The Noble World Hotel Awards represents unparalleled excellence in the global hotel industry, recognizing the world’s most outstanding hotels and prestigious leaders in hospitality through the highest levels of achievement and distinction.

Travelers and guests from every corner of the world cast their votes over a dedicated period, ensuring that participating hotels becomes part of a distinguished circle of hotel excellence that is not just expected but celebrated.

Founded by the International Awards Associate (IAA), the Noble World Hotel Awards honors remarkable hotels, visionary leadership, bespoke services, and exceptional guest experiences. Through a myriad of categories, the Noble title defines top-tier hotels and hospitality leaders globally.

Teaser:

The Noble World Hotel Awards signifies unmatched excellence in the global hotel sector, honouring the most exceptional hotels and esteemed leaders in hospitality through a dedicated voting period where guests and travellers from around the world cast their votes, enabling participating hotels to join a distinguished circle of excellence that is not just anticipated but celebrated.

2025 The Noble World Hotel Awards Theme - Global Inspirations: Celebrating Diversity in Luxury Hospitality

The Noble World Hotel Awards celebrates the pinnacle of achievements in luxury and the finest hotels across the globe. The 2025 theme, "Global Inspirations: Celebrating Diversity in Luxury Hospitality," honors establishments that have reached the highest levels of luxury by blending rich traditions, arts, and experiences from around the world into their offerings.

By recognizing these outstanding hotels and leaders, the Noble World Hotel Awards highlights the importance of diversity as a cornerstone of luxury, where each unique influence enhances the guest experience and sets new benchmarks for excellence in the world of hospitality.

Categories:

The 2025 categories include: Noble Outstanding Hotel Awards, Noble Outstanding Resort Awards, Noble Outstanding Boutique Hotel Awards, Noble Outstanding Villa Awards, Noble Outstanding Safari & Lodge Awards, Noble Outstanding Retreats Awards and Noble Excellence in Hotel and Leadership Awards.

 Eligibility:

The Noble World Hotel Awards welcomes entries from luxury and outstanding hotels, as well as industry professionals worldwide. Any hotel or individual, regardless of location, star ratings, size, or position, are welcome to submit for the highest form of recognition.

 For hotels under development, entries are accepted at any construction stage, provided the necessary planning approvals are in place.

Submission Requirements:

 We welcome submissions from all over the world. Entries must have been produced after January 1, 2020.

Entry Brief:

Kindly provide a synopsis of your hotel or personal background / achievements (only applicable to “Excellence in Hotel Leadership” category) of approximately 350 words. The brief should strengthen your entry, as well as providing the jury a better understanding. A written translation or adaptation of non-English entries is highly recommended. 

Image Submission:

Images should be saved in a flattened JPEG or JPG format. (Keep them under 4MB, 1,200px wide is preferable, 300dpi, RGB).

Video / Audio Submission:

Entries attaching audio/video materials must be submitted with a direct URL that will take judges directly to the work. An example of this would be:

 - Upload the materials (either video / audio) to an online platform like YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, etc.

- Once you have obtained the URL, paste it directly in the prepared field, and click “Save”.

 Voting Process

During the Noble World Hotel Awards voting process, anyone can cast their vote online. This process will usually last around two weeks, where specific dates will be revealed further before the voting season begins.

 To cast your vote, simply click on the dedicated voting URL for each participant, enter your email address and choose the hotel and category you wish to support.

Results of voting are kept confidential. A percentage of 30% based on the final score in this process will contribute towards the final score. 

2025 Entry Deadline & Fees:

Early Bird: Oct 15 – Nov 27, 2024 ($500)

Regular: Nov 28, 2024 – Jan 9, 2025 ($600)

Final: Jan 10 – Feb 12, 2025 ($700)

Final Extension: Feb 13 – March 13, 2025 ($800)

Results Announcement: May 9, 2025

Winning Level:

Participating properties and individuals will be evaluated on their own merits without comparisons between entries of the same category. There are FOUR (4) Achievements, depending on the category in the Noble World Hotel Awards:

 - Noble Hotel of the Year

- Noble Category Winners of the Year

 - Noble Collection of Outstanding (Hotels / Resorts / Boutique Hotels / Villas / Safaris & Lodges / Retreats)

 - Noble Excellence in Leadership

 Winners are determined based on a combination of public voting, and international online judging, through a carefully prepared set of judging criteria.

One property with the highest score amongst all categories will be awarded with the accolade “Noble Hotel of the Year”. 

The highest scoring entry of each category will be awarded as the “Noble Category Winners of the Year”.

Judging:

Our distinguished panel of judges is composed of industry experts, each with a wealth of experience and a history of contributing to the hospitality sector. This esteemed group of elites carefully evaluates, selects, and honors hotels, as well as individuals that exemplify excellence in all aspects the global hotel industry, ensuring that only the most exceptional properties and achievements are recognized.

The judging process is conducted with the utmost integrity. To maintain impartiality and prevent any potential conflicts of interest, all identifying information is removed from entries, allowing for a truly unbiased evaluation. The size of properties submitted will not be taken into consideration during judging.

Evaluation Criteria:

Submissions are judged at random without being compared to other entries within the same categories. Our judges will score on a scale of 1-100 based on:

Hotel Categories: Establishment Overview

Facilities

Visual Identity / Design / Presentation

Brand Review and Reputation on Online Platforms / Social Media

Overall Impression

Hotel Leadership Categories

Innovation / Vision

Execution / Content

Achievements / Accomplishments

Overall Success

The Noble World Hotel Awards and International Awards Associate Inc's decision are final in its sole discretion and binding in relation to all matters relating to Competitions and may not be subject to any discussions or correspondence.

Results Announcement:

All winners for 2025 will be announced on May 9, 2025 via Noble World Hotel Awards’s official page. All registered participants can then login to see the winning works.

Prizes:

The Noble Hotel of the Year Winners receive a complimentary limited-edition trophy and professionally designed certificate.

One professionally designed certificate commemorating the winning entry, which includes entry title, entering company/winners' name and category. Decal will be affixed indicating the level of win.

Top tier (Category Winners, Noble Collection of Outstanding … and Noble Excellence in Leadership) winners will be featured on the Noble World Hotel Awards site's Gallery, where professionals can view your work.

A press release template sent to major industry outlets, celebrating your win.

Professionally designed logos for use on websites, in email signatures, etc.

In addition to the complimentary certificates, Category Winners, Noble Collection of Outstanding … and Noble Excellence in Leadership) winners may purchase beautiful Noble World Hotel Awards statuettes, and/or additional customized certificates.

Platinum and Gold winners will get featured by Noble World Hotel Awards on social media or our media partner on Muse.World's website.

The call for entries for the 2025 Noble World Hotel Awards is now open! This prestigious event offers an opportunity to celebrate the pinnacle of luxury and exceptional hospitality worldwide, while embracing an exciting future for digital innovation and creativity in the industry.

Enter Now: https://noblehotelawards.com/

#nobleawards #nobelawards #hotelawards #luxuryawards #resortawards #hospitalityawards #boutiquehotelawards #villaawards #safariandlodgeawards #retreatawards #hotelleadershipawards