About Us

 
 
  For decades, STAR Service has given travel professionals access to unbiased, professional reviews for over 10,000 hotels worldwide as well as professional reviews on over 320 cruise ships. The highly respectedWeissmann Reports delivers detailed destination information on over 5,700 cities and ports of call around the world and Intelliguide leads the industry with up-to-the-minute 24/7 travel alerts.

Following a year of research, focus groups and one-on-one meetings with travel professionals around the country, travel42 was born. We took all of your feedback and took the best of all 3 products and built a new site, just the way you asked for it.

travel42 provides everything travel professionals need to recommend hotels and cruise ships, create customized destination guides for clients, and stay informed about travel disruptions and security developments worldwide.  And it’s all in one place:

  • Detailed descriptions of 137,000 hotels
  • 10,000 unbiased hotel reviews and 300 cruise-ship
        reviews written from in-person inspections
  • 5,700 destination reports from local experts
  • Proprietary, 24/7 travel-alert service specifically for travel professionals


  • Quickly research and deliver professional recommendations tailored to your clients’ specific needs that feature your own logo and contact information.

    Northstar Travel Media is a privately owned news media company. It is the world’s largest business-to-business publisher of travel-oriented information. Its portfolio of print and electronic products includes Travel Weekly, Hotel & Travel Index Worldwide, Weissmann Reports, Intelliguide Corporate, Meetings & Conventions, TravelAge West, Official Meeting Facilities Guide, Exchange Travel Deals and STAR Service Online. These products draw on a proprietary database – the largest and most comprehensive of its kind.

    Northstar is an industry leader in research, events and conferences, marketing services, custom communications, content licensing and database management. Travel buyers, planners and arrangers in nearly every country of the world use Northstar products and services.

     
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