New Top Level Domain .HOTEL

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The proposed top-level domain .hotel will enable members of the hotel community to register valuable domain names such as www.adlon.hotel, www.nyc.hotel or www.beach.hotel in the near future. The .hotel top-level domain will help to solve existing challenges in a strongly growing online hotel business.

The introduction of the .hotel name space (also called top-level domain or domain extension) is supported by a number of international and national hotel associations and hotel chains as well as by leading suppliers of the hotel business worldwide. The supporters include among many others:

• International Hotel & Restaurant Association
• Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa
• designhotels.com
• German Hotel Association
• World Hotels
• Gourmet Hotel Business Federation of Argentina
• Corinthia Hotels International
• Hotel Europa

Background

Hotels are more than a temporary home for travellers. They are the meeting point for people from all over the world from different backgrounds, cultures and languages. Hotels offer a wide variety of services including recreation, luxury and security; these services often translate into feelings of loyalty in the minds of hotel guests.

The .hotel top-level domain supports the hotels' strengths and enhances the hotel business network worldwide for the benefit of all - from the guests via the hotel to organizations and providers. The organization is cooperating with representatives of the global hotel business, international, national and local associations, the Internet community and many other stakeholders around the world to create the .hotel name space.

Advantages

The .hotel top-level domain will offer:

• a trusted and secure namespace and new domains exclusively for the global hotel business, from the suppliers and providers to the customers
• valuable domain names for hotels and related products and services, which gain better search engine rankings and save hotels from paying provisions to booking portals
• better online network and more effective online marketing for the entire hotel business
• hotel will be home of the global hotel industry

For the global hotel business and Internet users worldwide the .hotel top-level domain will have additional benefits - with its policies the .hotel name space will decrease online fraud, spam, cybersquatting and other scams.