Monday, December 21, 2009

Hotels.com Reveals Wyoming as Fourth Most Expensive US State

According to the latest hotels.com Hotel Price Index (HP), Wyoming was a allotment of the states with a lot of big-ticket auberge ante in the aboriginal bisected of 2009. In accession to ski tourism allowance to advance college averages allowance amount above the state, prices in the basic of Cheyenne aswell led to a college boilerplate amount for Wyoming as the city-limits airy civic trends with a 5 per cent access in allowance rates.

Wyoming took fourth abode abaft demography the fourth abode atom abaft New York hotels and acclimation in Massachusetts and Hawaii. Steve Dumaine, chief administrator of affairs at hotels.com, said: "Despite beneath ample cities, the added big-ticket abode options in above ski destinations accept helped accumulate the abundance states below the civic boilerplate in agreement of amount drops. However, travelers can still get a abundant accord in the area. Hotels are accepting added advancing with promotions and alms added account like resort credits and adulatory meals."

Cheyenne was one of alone 5 cities in the nation whose boilerplate amount per allowance added in January through June 2009. Salt Lake City ranked additional a allotment of abundance states for atomic affecting amount change with a 5 percent abatement in boilerplate allowance prices, with an boilerplate amount of $117 per night.

The HPI aswell begin that in the aboriginal bisected of 2009 auberge prices above the US alone 17%. Mountain states - acclaimed actuality as Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Montana and Colorado - beat the civic year-over-year amount bead with Wyoming accepting the everyman abatement in auberge allowance amount at nine per cent, followed by Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Montana, all abbreviating by 15% or less.

Also in the aboriginal bisected of 2009, Denver came in 17th a allotment of the top 20 US destinations for US travelers. Despite accepting a admired a allotment of US travelers, Denver saw the boilerplate auberge amount abatement 11% over the aforementioned aeon in 2008 with averages prices for a night at $116 in the aboriginal bisected of 2009.

Nationally, Idaho had the additional atomic big-ticket auberge ante of all states with apartment on boilerplate $84 a night, which fabricated it the atomic big-ticket accompaniment a allotment of the abundance region. Among above US cities, Boise, Idaho, has the additional atomic big-ticket auberge rates, with Albuquerque as accepting the everyman boilerplate amount for the aboriginal bisected of 2009, with the boilerplate amount of $81 per night. Helena, Montana, ranked fifth all-embracing with apartment averaging $85 per night a bead of 26% from the antecedent year.

The hotels.com HPI advance the absolute prices paid per auberge allowance rather than advertised rates, application a abounding boilerplate based on the amount of apartment awash in anniversary of the markets in which hotels.com operates. The HPI address issued today examines auberge prices paid at 78,000 hotels above 13,000 locations about the apple for the aeon January to June 2009, compared to the aforementioned aeon the year before.

The all-embracing calibration of hotels.com in agreement of both barter and destinations makes the HPI one of the a lot of absolute benchmarks available, as it incorporates both alternation and absolute hotels, as able-bodied as specialty abode options such as vacation rentals and bed and breakfast properties.

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