Tourico Holidays, has released its 2017 Global Hotel Trends Report, examining hotel booking data from nearly 80,000 hotel properties located on more than 4,500 destinations around the world – and compared it to booking data captured at the same time last year, revealing where traveller interests have shifted.
According to the 2017 Report, nearly all of the world’s major travel regions are currently outpacing their prior year hotel bookings, indicating a very healthy outlook for the hotel industry and tourism in general.
“It’s still early, but it’s extremely encouraging to see that booked hotel room nights for 2017 are already significantly outpacing 2016,” said Tourico Holidays, executive vice president of global sales at Lauren Volcheff Atlass. “Even despite attempts to frighten people away from traveling, the industry is not only surviving, but thriving – and the hotel sector in particular, continues to grow.”
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Room nights booked in the United States have increased by 26% year-over-year. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom’s booked room nights for 2017 have increased by 38% year-over-year.
China has increased its booked room nights by 52% year-over-year.
Others, including Canada (+55% YoY), Mexico (+37% YoY), Brazil (+31% YoY), UAE (+65% YoY), Thailand (+29% YoY), Australia (+10% YoY), and Sweden (+112% YoY) have also seen significant growth in hotel room nights booked for 2017.
“Tourism continues to be a major driver in the world’s economy, and a key indicator of its health can be measured by the growth in hotel bookings,” said Volcheff Atlass. “That said, the data revealed by the Trends Report not only serves our business, but others in the travel ecosystem.”
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