Last year hoteliers found that for business travelers luxury was not an important factor when choosing an accommodation, as they preferred a good Internet connection and other elements that facilitated their work. In this 2010 it is tourists who choose less luxurious and expensive establishments.According to the comment of Arne Sorenson, president of Marriott International, hotels and resorts with room rates of US $ 1,000 per night will be the accommodations that will take the longest to recover the good flow of guests they had before the crisis. These, according to Sorenson, will resume their activities more slowly than the rest of the industry. "It will take a long time for the bigger excesses to come back, if they ever do," he said.
This comment was made at a travel summit in which the president of the hotel chain also said that small establishments in the Caribbean, which depend in part on residences, may take longer to recover, as they depend on luxurious and extravagant consumption, which is no longer popular with leisure travelers.
Source: Reuters
