For 25 years, MKG Group has been a global leader in tourism, hotel
and catering consulting. Together with other specialised brands, MKG Hospitality, MKG Qualiting, OlaKala, Worldwide Hospitality Awards, Global Lodging Forum, as well as sector publications HTR Magazine and Hotel Restau Hedbo, MKG Group supports investors, hoteliers and key tourism players to improve performance, boost productivity and achieve results.

MKG Hospitality
The largest database in the world (excluding the US), representing all segments from budget to upscale hotels. 45 000 hotels and over 2.5 million rooms are compiled in MKG’s database. MKG’s market monitoring database, HotelCompSet, contains a sample of over 250 brands in 150 countries (over 800 markets) and 11 000 corporate chain hotels, representing more than 1,000,000 rooms. HotelCompSet provides daily, monthly and yearly monitoring of hotel indicators and analyses of its sample. MKG’s statistical samples provide a comprehensive and accurate measure of the hospitality industry. With a dedicated department of research analysts, MKG Hospitality provides consulting services to the majority of important actors and investors in the hotel and tourism industries worldwide. MKG Hospitality offers unique savoir-faire in four major forms of expertise:
• Market studies: diagnosis, measurement and analysis.
• Financial studies: evaluations, assessments, feasibility studies.
• Support and advices: provide guidance and dialogue to help you
define objectives for development and implement them.
• Sector publications: European Hospitality Report, Forecasts.

MKG Qualiting
has developed a respected savoir-faire and proposes concrete solutions in order to optimize the quality of your services.
Our major products Quality standards and references, mystery visits and calls, products audits and concept compliance, benchmarking, quality action plans

HTR Magazine
A monthly French-English publication that sheds light on the most important economic and market news so that hoteliers and other actors in the industry can make informed decisions.

Hotel Class
Through its new department HotelClass, MKG Qualiting received its official certification* from the “Cofrac” and can now meet the needs of hoteliers who wish to start the process of a new hotel classification. MKG Qualiting was the first specialized hospitality firm to be certified for 1 to 5 stars hotels inspections. Indeed, only firms holding the “Cofrac certification” are authorized to perform inspections for hotel classification on the basis of the new standards of the Decree of December 22nd 2008 (2). HotelClass is a dedicated MKG Qualiting department and, as such, benefits from 25 years of expertise in the hospitality industry acquired by the firm in all hotel categories all over the country and all types of hotels . * Certification No. 3-0706 COFRAC Inspection for carrying out inspections related to the new hotels’ classification - www.cofrac.fr

OlaKala
A unique online survey platform provided by MKG.
This new online platform will allow you to:
• Address your customers with personalized online surveys
• Collect their answers with no language barriers - The application is multi-lingual
• Access results instantaneously
• Manage unsatisfied clients on the spot

Worldwide Hospitality Awards
The Worldwide Hospitality Awards is an international competition and an opportunity for hotel groups to highlight their teams’ exemplary achievements in communication, marketing, innovation, human resources, social and environmental responsibility, customer loyalty programs… For more than 10 years, the Worldwide Hospitality Awards, created by Georges Panayotis, President and CEO MKG Group, have undertaken to promote the initiatives of the hospitality industry all around the world.

Global Lodging Forum
The Global Lodging Forum is the Think Tank of the hospitality industry. For over a decade, the Global Lodging Forum has been the only international platform in Paris to bring together leading industry stakeholders: investors, operators, financial institutions, real estate and developers. MKG Hospitality presents a preview of a detailed statement of French, European and worldwide hospitality activity, and gives the main hospitality trends. Spread over four half-days, the Global Lodging Forum features a series of in-depth market analysis, themed round tables and working groups. More than 600 decision makers of the largest hotel groups, financial corporations and hospitality leaders gather to update their information on the French, European and world hotel chains.