Sadly, there's not one hospitality company on the 100 Best Corporate Citizens list of 2007 (click on the image for the full list) as reported by CRO.

We discussed this on today's indieHotelier live show (will be released as a podcast by Monday). While this is bad news for our industry as a whole, it represents a grand opportunity for  individual properties and brands to serve a fast growing niche...people who want to do business with good stewards of the earth, their employees and their communities.

If you need some help, send Tony an e-mail.

Travel and Leisure released its annual top 500 hotels of the world list in the January issue. As with many magazine lists, the scoring system can be hard to figure out. Nevertheless, it's a positive PR step if you make the cut. Here's some bonus analysis of this year's list of US hotels (using the composite scores):

There are 188 US hotels on the list (38%)

Independent vs. Chain

• 70% of the top 10 are independent
• 60% of the top 20 are independent
• 64% of the top 100 are independent
• 62% of all US hotels are independent

Location

• 38 (20%) of the US hotels are in California
• 17 (9%) are located in Florida

Size

• 8 of the top 10 (80%) have less than 150 rooms
• 5 of the top 10 (50%) have less than 50 rooms
• 19 of the top 30 hotels (63%) have less than 150 rooms
• 16 of the top 30 (53%) have less than 100 rooms
• 11 of the top 30 (37%) have 50 rooms or less

Small independents consistently dominate this and other lists...because they're the best at delivering a unique and highly personalized guest experience. And, that's what people want. Yes, I love to prove a point.

By the way, the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai received the highest score of 91.71...congratulations.