The travel industry continues its recovery despite the 2% rise in hotel prices, as revealed by hotels.com in its study called Hotel Price Index (HPI™).
The survey further reveals that the cities with the highest OCCUPANCY levels EN in 2010 were London, Paris, Singapore and New York. Las Vegas, however, remains the most visited city by Americans, followed by New York, Orlando, Chicago and San Francisco.
Victor Owens, vice president of marketing for North America at hotels.com "The continued growth of business and individual travel across the industry is encouraging. Despite the rise in hotel prices globally, hotels.com can still offer good deals to its customers due in part to the increase in hotels around the world.
Additionally, the HPI revealed that on average, the most expensive rooms in 2010 were offered by the Bora Bora region of French Polynesia with a value close to US$605, while the community of Primm, Nevada (USA) offered the cheapest rooms with a price of US$34 per day.
