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SecurityWorldHotel.com is an online publication focusing on the security industry.

History
The website was launched for the Swedish market in 1998 by the security publisher AR Media International. One year later a Norwegian edition and a version for the global market was launched. The expansion continued with a Danish edition in 2001 and a British edition in 2003.

By 2005 SecurityWorldHotel.com was the most well known and widely read online security media in both the EMEA, United Kingdom/Irland and the Nordic countries according to a report by IMS Research. In the same report SecurityWorldHotel.com ranked third in North America. One year after that the website launched an edition for the Middle East and for North America.

In 2007, SecurityWorldHotel.com's founder and editor-in-chief Lennart Alexandrie was awarded the Hans Wermdalens säkerhetsstipendium, by the Swedish security trade association Swesec and the educational company Företagsuniversitetet. The motivation was that Alexandrie, through SecurityWorldHotel.com, has "created accessible, objective and timely information about crime prevention of great benefit to both buyers and sellers of protection for people and property" and that this "actively contributed to Sweden's strong reputation in the security field".

SecurityWorldHotel.com is also distributed as a printed tabloid supplement in Dagens Næringsliv in Norway and Dagbladet Børsen in Denmark.

In 2013, SecurityWorldHotel.com's founder and editor-in-chief Lennart Alexandrie received the Global Security Industry Alliance's prestigious Gold Shield Award, with the motivation mentioning his journalism.