Hoteliers need the arms to fight back," said Georges Panayotis, head of hotel research firm MKG group.
Numbers from Smith Travel Research, the leading hotel research company, show just how tough times have become for all hotels.
New York will have the most new hotels, 46, according to Smith Travel Research, a hotel research company in Hendersonville, Tenn., followed by Houston, with 30.
Thirty-eight percent of hotels offer some kind of allergy-friendly service in guest rooms, a 14 percent increase in the last two years, according to the 2010 Lodging Survey prepared for the American Hotel and Lodging Association by STR, a hotel research company.
In April, 253 of the 458 branded luxury hotel projects under construction or in the final planning stages were in the Asia-Pacific region, according to STR Global, a hotel research company.
The average price for a night in a luxury hotel last year in Paris was €617, up from €532 in 2010, according to data tracked by STR Global, a hotel research company.
According to Jeff Higley, a vice president at Smith Travel Research, a hotel research company in Hendersonville, Tenn., occupancy rates at hotels with spas fell to 62.4 percent in the first nine months of this year, from 70.8 percent in the first nine months of 2006.
"Certainly, what we've seen is younger travelers like active spaces, even if they're sitting by themselves," said David Loeb, senior hotel research analyst at Robert W. Baird & Company.
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