Best Western retained its position as the UK's largest hotel marketing consortium in 2007 by bedrom numbers, despite the loss of 10 members and 500 bedrooms. 

The consortium topped the tables with 290  members with a combined 15,500 bedrooms between them.

The second place continued to be occupied by the Independents Hotel Association which lists more than 180 members with in excess of 11,000 bedrooms.

These facts and figures are reported in British Hospitality: Trends and Statistics 2007, published by the British Hospitality Association.

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The full report (which is free to BHA members) can be bought for £195 (for the printed version) or £146.25 (for a PDF file).

The top hotel consortia from the 2006 report can be viewed here >>

UK HOTEL MARKETING CONSORTIA 2007

	Consortia	Number of hotels in the UK	Number of rooms in the UK
01	Best Western	290+	15,500+
02	The Independents Hotel  Association	180+	11,000+
03	The Circle	450+	5,500
04	Classic British Hotels	50+	3,362+
05	Leading Hotels of the World	17	2,850
06	Great Hotels Organisation	18	1,832
07	Small Luxury Hotels	35	1,749
08	Pride of Britain	32	1,040
09	Design Hotels	12	875
10	Preferred Hotels & Resorts	5	567
11	Relais & Chateau	23	500
12	Concorde Hotels	1	416
13	Minotel	5	233