Talk:Rating systems

No, no, no. This should be brutally summarized and placed in the United Kingdom article, otherwise nobody will ever find it. (WT-en) Jpatokal 04:44, 14 September 2006 (EDT)

Agreed. Also, the title seems quite universal that it indicates the article discuss the whole array of rating systems for everything univerasally. -- (WT-en) Sapphire 18:10, 9 November 2006 (EST)

Agree as well... this hasn't gone anywhere and it would be pretty unmanageable/unhelpful if it did manage to be a "universal" list of ratings. This info belongs in the UK guide. If there arent any objections, I'd like to move it to the UK talk page for data mining into the main article... (WT-en) Maj 22:46, 21 December 2006 (EST)

Some of it might go in Hotels which alredy discusses some of the same issues. (WT-en) Pashley 04:14, 11 March 2007 (EDT)

Vote for deletion discussion

Present content indicates that it's designed to list rating standards for accommodation in every country. This content belongs on individual country or region pages, as Talk:Rating systems points out. (WT-en) Hypatia 07:56, 13 October 2007 (EDT)

Could it be merged into Hotels? That seems a better place for any overview material. (WT-en) Pashley 04:07, 19 November 2007 (EST)

• Keep. This does seem a borderline case, which could be merged into individual country/continent pages, but I think the end result might be a bit messy. I would recommend, however, that the Africa section be dumped (as it does not substantially differ from international norms) and the travel topic be narrowed down to cover only its principal content—hotel rating systems in Europe. --(WT-en) Peter ^Talk 01:07, 10 December 2007 (EST)

Merge?

I'm inclined to keep this article as an overview, but fell fairly strongly that details belong either in Hotels or in country/region articles where various systems apply. Other opinions? Pashley (talk) 14:55, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

An alternative, I suppose, is to keep all info on ratings here & link to it from other articles. Is that better? Pashley (talk) 15:04, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I'm not sure I'd want to see this stuff in the country articles, since in its own coverage, Wikivoyage actually discourages use of these rating systems in listings. I don't really want people to see that and think they are justified in sticking asterisks everywhere in Sleep sections. It's a bit long to merge with the already long Hotels article, but the Star ratings section there needs to at least link to it, which it currently does not. Texugo (talk) 15:08, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

I added a link there. Thanks for pointing that out. Pashley (talk) 18:47, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Trim the non-hotel subcategories

Rating systems#United Kingdom is getting unwieldy as it's a bit too long, compared to the level of coverage for other countries/regions. I'm thinking we should severely trim the detailed criteria for non-hotel guest accommodation, self-catering and serviced apartments, parks, holiday villages and hostels. List the hotel criteria (as they seem to be current now), acknowledge that less restrictive criteria exist for the other categories (compared to hotels) and leave it at that. K7L (talk) 05:29, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Good idea.

More generally, I think this should be mainly an overview article with much of the detail moved to country articles, or perhaps places like Europe or Hotels. Pashley (talk) 10:56, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Restaurants

That raises another question; the intro is clear enough that "rating systems purport to evaluate restaurants, hotels and travel accommodation" but the country-level sections focus primarily on lodging. Are there any national standards for restaurant ratings? K7L (talk) 05:33, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Do you mean governmental standards? Michelin, of course, has restaurant ratings. So does Gault-Millau in various countries - like Michelin, including some beyond Europe (a web search turned up one for Australia as well as various European ones). Forbes Travel Guide, the successor to Mobil Travel Guide, is another intercontinental rating service, but though they rate hotels, their rating standards seem to concentrate on hotels, rather than restaurants. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:16, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Asia

Is there no Asia subheading? If so, why? Hobbitschuster (talk) 02:03, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

They are quite a different sort of rating, but w:Tourism_in_China#Tourist_Attraction_Rating_Categories should be described somewhere on WV since various articles mention them. Would this article be the right place? See also w:AAAAA Tourist Attractions of China. Pashley (talk) 17:52, 13 October 2023 (UTC)