The Numbers Behind the Platform
Every number here reflects real hospitality professionals, filtered for bots and automated traffic, not inflated by scrapers or crawlers. Authority metrics come from independent sources, Ahrefs and Moz.
The Headline Numbers
Pageviews, visitors, subscribers, and reach, the top-line figures, verified and updated regularly.
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Audience by Segment
One in three registered users works directly in the hotel industry, with the rest spanning suppliers, consultants, and other hospitality-adjacent roles. Based on professional background provided at registration, hotel industry professionals grouped as a single category.
Industry Ranking: Hospitality B2B Publications
Domain Rating measures how well-established a publication is, based on the quality of sites that link to it. Among global hospitality B2B publications, Hospitality Net leads the field, reflecting 30 years of accumulated editorial authority and recognition across the wider web.
| # | Publication | Focus | Owner | Domain Rating | Domain Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hospitality Net | Global | Independent | ||
| 2 | Hotel Management | US-centric | Questex LLC | ||
| 3 | Hotel Business | US-centric | Rubelmann Capital | ||
| 4 | Hotel-Online | US-centric | HFTP (nonprofit) | ||
| 4 | Hotel News Resource | Global | Nevistas | ||
| 6 | eHotelier | Global | Independent | ||
| 7 | HOTELS Magazine | Global | Outclick Media | ||
| 8 | Hotel Executive | Global | Independent | ||
| 8 | Hotelier Middle East | MENA region only | ITP Media Group | ||
| 10 | Hospitality ON | Europe / French | MKG Group |
Domain Rating (DR) is an independent measure of a website's credibility and authority on the internet, scored 0–100, calculated by Ahrefs based on the number and quality of external websites that link to a domain. Domain Authority (DA) is a similar metric developed by Moz, also scored 0–100, predicting how likely a website is to rank in search engine results. Both scores reflect the strength and trustworthiness of a domain as recognised across the wider web. Sources: Ahrefs & Moz, May 2026.
Hospitality Net in the Age of AI
Hospitality Net content is actively surfaced by the world's leading AI platforms. Among referral sources, ChatGPT ranks in our top 3, ahead of LinkedIn and all social media combined, and Claude.ai ranks in our top 10. We see this as a sign that AI platforms treat HN as a trusted reference in hospitality, and visitors arriving via AI platforms show significantly higher engagement than those from organic search.
May 2026
Demographics
Hospitality Net serves a genuinely global audience, reaching professionals in over 160 countries, from the Americas and Europe to Asia, Oceania, and Africa.
Scale & Authority
Hospitality Net has been building its platform since 1994. What you see below is the result: a community of 500+ active contributors and a platform with real scale and authority, with Google as our largest traffic source, reflecting 30 years of indexed content that the web keeps coming back to.
Brand Awareness
Hospitality Net has been a trusted source for the global hospitality industry for over 30 years. That trust is why we're heavily crawled by search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and DuckDuckGo, AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot, as well as news aggregators, RSS readers, and industry feeds.
When you publish on Hospitality Net, your brand doesn't just appear here. It propagates, picked up, indexed, and surfaced across platforms you'd never reach directly. That's the brand mention effect.
12,000 visitors a day. Domain Authority 74. And a reach that goes well beyond both.
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Content & Distribution
With around 500 new content pieces published each month, every article gets picked up by the same search engines and AI platforms mentioned above, giving it broad distribution beyond direct site traffic.
All content on Hospitality Net is automatically categorized into topics. The chart below shows the five most-viewed topics by pageviews.
May 2026