News - 12th Dec 2008

A Guide to Hotel Design: Refurbishing in a Recession

We publish regular reviews of hotel occupancy figures as a rough guide to the health of the industry. Every designer and supply company needs healthy clients with profitable hotels to be generating the work in either refurbishment or new build.

Figures for recent months show a fall in October of some 3%, roughly the same in all the reports (PKF, TRi , etc). However reports are now coming from hotels of occupancy levels going ’off a cliff’ in November with falls of 30% and more being reported. Concurrent with this come reports from the Asia Pacific conference that Intercontinental is announcing redundancies in its worldwide operations, whilst the US national press carried reports of the woes of Marriott, who lost a recent $400 million dollar court case.

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