Since the beginning of this year, there have been a lot hopeful murmurs about the return of business travel after a precipitous decline over the last two years.
Now we’ve got even more proof that business travelers–especially those from small and medium sized companies–are seeing growth opportunities and taking more trips.
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Smith Travel Research is out with another look at the U.S. hotel industry. They reported decreases in all three key measurements during February 2010.
The occupancy rates hovering just over 50 percent. Average daily room rates are now well under $100 at US$97.12. Those factors add up to a revenue per available room number of only $52.19.
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One of the most irritating hotel surcharges for many travelers is for Internet access. (And, as has been discussed on Consumer Traveler before, sometimes needing to pay twice for two-computer families.)
Budget hotels, curiously, often offer Internet access for free. It’s the high-end places that charge $10 to $15 a day for the privilege.
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Now you see it. Now you don’t.
When you’re airfare shopping, attractive prices can vanish in a split second. Just ask Jim Doll, a systems engineer in Atlanta, who recently tried to buy a ticket to San Francisco on AirTran Airways’ Web site. He found a one-way fare for just $130, but by the time he’d toggled over to Orbitz.com to see if he could do better there and then clicked back, the price had changed.
“Now it was $220 per person,” he said. “Why couldn’t they lock the fare for, say, five minutes, to give me a chance to make the reservation?”
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