How Guests Select Their Hotels
Article by www.cheapfares.com
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
While some travelers might select hotels strictly based on reviewing discount hotel rooms or cheap vacation packages, more than price goes into many people’s decisions.
A recent survey of over 1,000 people rated cleanliness as their number one criteria in selecting a hotel:
Cleanliness 43 percent
Price 23 percent
Location 19 percent
Security 11 percent
This June survey was sponsored by property and casualty insurance giant Chubb Group of Insurance Companies.
A Chub spokesperson responded to the results saying “Travelers should take safety precautions more seriously, and travel security should be higher on their checklist than cleanliness. It seems that more people are concerned about housekeeping than security.”
Hotel security concerns gained a much higher profile after ESPN report Erin Andrews became aware in 2010 of video taken on her naked through a hotel room peephole. Andrews was stalked and/or filmed in rooms at the Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University, the Radisson Airport hotel in Milwaukee, and a third hotel in Columbus, Ohio. Andrews observed that she always had the “expectation of privacy once checked into her room.”
Other important considerations in selecting a hotel include:
• Location of your hotel. Ideally you want it to be close to whatever activities you would like to take advantage of in the area.
• Hotel amenities. Use the Internet to view images of the hotel’s actual rooms and facilities.
• Reviews and feedback on hotels. These often end up giving the most accurate picture of what you can reasonably expect during your stay.
Las Vegas Hotel Investments Surging
In what can only bode well for continuing cheap airplane tickets to Las Vegas as well as cheap vacation packages Las Vegas hotel companies are reporting positive financial results and announcing major capital investments in new and existing properties they want to upgrade.
Caesars Entertainment shared plans the week of August 15th for “Project Linq”, a 0 million retail and entertainment district on the Las Vegas Strip that will sport the world’s tallest Ferris wheel.
2011 has marked a steady rebound in visitor traffic to Las Vegas, the largest American hotel market. Domestic visitors have grown steadily while overseas tourists, encouraged by the relatively weak dollar, are responsible for an increasing percentage of visitors.
MGM Resorts International recently unveiled the first renovated rooms in its 2,568 room Bellagio main tower. MGM expects its million room upgrade project to be completed by December.
During the first six months of 2011 Las Vegas visitor count increased by slightly over 5 percent from a year ago, to 19.5 million, resulting in hotel occupancy up almost 4 percent to 87.5 percent.
International convention business is significantly better this year in contrast to the past few years when Las Vegas hotel convention business fell off sharply in response to the recession.
Las Vegas sports 169,000 hotel rooms which is almost 50,000 more than the number of rooms in Orlando, the next largest U.S. hotel market.
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