Forbes Travel Guide's 2010 Five and Four Star awards feature properties in destinations throughout North America, as well as our newest international ratings in Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing. The North American winners include 53 Five Star hotels. 21 Five-Star restaurants and 18 Five Star spas; Four Star winners include 157 hotels and resorts, 160 restaurants and 110 spas. The international winners include 6 Five Star hotels, 15 Four Star hotels, 5 Five Star spas and 9 Four Star Spas. View our Star Award winners page to see all North American and International winners.

Sorting through the scores of travel ratings in the marketplace today takes effort—many are biased and the source of information is a mystery. There is a proven, time-tested gold standard for hospitality ratings, and we invented it. Forbes Travel Guide provides travelers the most objective, most disciplined ratings for hotels, restaurants and spas in the world. The hospitality industry respects and reveres the Five Star rating system, and consumers have put their faith in it for 50 years as they decide where to stay, dine or play.

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