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400k hotels * 200 rooms/hotel average = 80M hotel rooms in the U.S. That's one for every ~4 people in the U.S. That seems way too high... even if these rooms ar
by peripitea 14y ago
400k hotels * 200 rooms/hotel average = 80M hotel rooms in the U.S. That's one for every ~4 people in the U.S. That seems way too high... even if these rooms are only filled 25% of the time (which the article indicates is way below the 70% these businesses desire), that would mean the average American would be using a hotel room one out of every 16 days (and that assumes that people don't share rooms). Am I missing something, or are these stats wrong?
- zygen 14y agoYou're not counting the rest of the world that may be traveling in the US =)
- dredmorbius 14y agoI think the article is substantially overestimating the average hotel size. I'd bet it's much closer to 10-20 rooms than 200. You're forgetting a huge number of smaller roadside / rural establishments. For San Francisco (a large tourist-oriented city with many larger hotels), there are 215 hotels, offering 33,642 rooms (source: http://www.sanfrancisco.travel/research/ http://www.sanfrancisco.travel/research/) or an average of 156 rooms per hotel. Given that smaller cities and rural resort areas will tend to have smaller facilities, I see the rooms/hotel being markedly lower. SF's population-to-rooms ratio is 24:1, or rooms for about 4% of the population (and that's in a city with huge tourist and business travel traffic). That would give you a high-end of 8 million rooms, or enough for about 5% of the population (assuming double occupancy, 2.5% for single).