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Average Daily Room Rate Comparison Across 44 Hotel Brands

Tables in this article show the year over year changes in average room rates and occupancy for the various brands in five major hotel chains including Choice Hotels International, InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott Hotels, Starwood Hotels, and Wyndham Hotels Group.

Case Study: Finding Washington, D. C. Hotel Deal for July 2009

We have all done hotel rate searches and you may already have a strategy that works well for you. I just completed a hotel rate search for family members planning to stay 7 nights next month in Washington, D.C.  

My Square Foot – An Examination of Hotel Room Size

How small is too small for a comfortable hotel room? I have stayed in hundreds of hotel rooms. I have lived in hotel rooms at around 2,000 square feet of multi-room living space. I have had hotel rooms where I

The City Estate: Dolce Hayes Mansion, San Jose

San Jose bought a derelict estate in the 1990s called Hayes Mansion located on the southern end of the city not far off Highway 101. Fortunately the place is on the National Register of Historic Places and there are numerous

Westin St. Francis Hotel San Francisco

There is so much beauty to behold in this hotel. The St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco is huge. The historic building and the Pacific Tower combined have nearly 1,200 guest rooms and dozens of floors and hallways to wander.

Hotel Review: Denver Westin Tabor Center

Rate Search History May 2009: The Westin Tabor Center is the showpiece of Starwood’s Denver hotels.   Rates were highly variable for this hotel. Weekday rates were $289 for most of the month of May. Even weekend rates for Friday

Hotel and Airline Articles I’ve Read Lately

Coach Air Travelers to Pay for Premium-class Excess? Joe Brancatelli has a great read from the Washington Post on the long term outlook for air travel.  He predicts the economics of premium cabin extreme makeovers these past few years will

Hyatt Gold Passport 2009 Enhancements – and they really are enhancements

Hyatt’s Gold Passport hotel loyalty program introduced major program changes for its members today.  So far my initial analysis indicates the changes are true enhancements for members. Major Hyatt Gold Passport changes effective April 2, 2009 – Hyatt Gold Passport

Hyatt 20% Off – Not by My Consumer Math

Remember the Jimi Hendrix line?  “If six turned out to be nine, I don’t mind, I don’t mind”   Offer:  20% off Hyatt Daily Rate for Hyatt properties worldwide with Hyatt Place and Summerfield Suites hotel brands excluded from this

Loyalty Traveler’s Economic Stimulus Plan for Luxury Hotels

Luxury Hotel Marketing Gurus: Use Loyalty Programs to Boost Occupancy The Double EQM offers from American Airlines and United Airlines this week are the kinds of promotions I think Tim Winship of Frequentflier.com had been expecting to see from the

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