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| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Airbnb | A public lodging marketplace connecting guests with hosts for short-term rentals and experiences. Airbnb is convenient and sometimes useful, but platform fees, housing-market pressure, surveillance/trust scoring, discrimination governance, and regulatory externalization make it substantially weaker than ordinary lodging alternatives. | public company | Medium confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | -1 | -6 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -4 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | AlandChuck.travel | An LGBTQ travel site linking users to selected travel partners and historically associated with Drag Race-themed cruise promotion. The sourced record supports travel-prize and LGBTQ-tourism context, while current operations, customer protection, and travel externalities remain important caveats. | LGBTQ travel company and Drag Race trip prize partner | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Banff Lodging Company | A Banff hospitality group operating hotels and lodging, with a mature employee share ownership plan and locally rooted service operations. Banff Lodging Company scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and ownership is comparatively aligned, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | employee-owned lodging company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Best Western / BWH Hotels | A privately held hotel brand network built around independently owned hotels, with useful midprice lodging and limited democratic accountability. Best Western / BWH Hotels lands in the middle because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and its scale is less corrupting than many peers, but ideological disavowal prevents a stronger rating. | independent-hotel brand network | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| GL | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Booking Holdings | A public online travel company behind Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Kayak, and OpenTable. Booking Holdings is convenient travel infrastructure, but platform fees, ranking power, profiling, hotel dependence, and customer-service opacity make it a weak intermediary. | public company | Medium confidence (AI) | Severe policy-capture record; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -9 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -4 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Drury Hotels | A family-owned value hotel chain selling lodging with breakfast and evening food included, with strong deal quality but discretionary private governance. Drury Hotels remains weak because of ideological disavowal, even where the product or service has practical value. | family-owned value hotel chain | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Expedia Group | A public online travel company behind Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, and other booking brands. Expedia is useful for comparison shopping, but platform fees, ranking power, loyalty capture, travel-data concentration, and vacation-rental externalities limit the score. | public company | Medium confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -5 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -4 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Hilton | A public hotel company operating and franchising Hilton, Hampton, DoubleTree, Embassy Suites, Waldorf Astoria, and other lodging brands. Hilton is useful travel infrastructure, but franchise labor distance, loyalty/subscription-like capture, fees, guest-data collection, and hotel ecological burdens constrain the score. | public company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Hostelling International USA | A nonprofit hostel network offering affordable travel accommodations and cultural-exchange programs in U.S. cities and destinations. Hostelling International USA scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and ownership is comparatively aligned, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | nonprofit hostel network | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Hyatt | A public hotel company operating, managing, and franchising Hyatt brands across luxury, lifestyle, resort, and business lodging. Hyatt is a Marriott/Hilton competitor with some stronger labor-market pockets, but shareholder control, franchise distance, guest data, loyalty capture, and hotel ecological burdens limit the score. | public company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | JetBlue | Reported by The Drum as partnering with RuPaul's Drag Race on an inflight ad. This is a low-confidence stub pending full airline labor, emissions, fees, and advertising review. | airline and RuPaul's Drag Race advertising partner | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Marriott International | A public global hotel company and franchisor selling lodging brands worldwide, with massive reach, franchise labor exposure, and shareholder control. Marriott International remains weak because of ideological disavowal, even where the product or service has practical value. | public hotel and lodging company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels | A Greensboro hotel and restaurant group that became 100% employee-owned through an ESOP, selling hospitality and dining services. Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and the model leaves more value with stakeholders, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | employee-owned restaurant and hotel company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |