Hotels carry on hiring to meet rising demand

Friday, November 17, 2023

For the remaining days of 2023, the business viewpoint for hotels remains quite powerful, thanks to an increase in business travel and a healthy preference among leisure and business travelers to put up in various hotels.

As per a recent survey made to order by the American Hotel & Lodging Association and led by Morning Consult, around 68% of US people, whose jobs include traveling said that for business, they were probably to travel overnight during the last three months of this year. This was up from 59% in last year. For almost 81% of business travelers surveyed, hotels are the top lodging choices.

The study also pointed out the fact that 32% of Americans will possibly travel overnight for Thanksgiving. This was an up from 28% a year before, as for Christmas, 34% are likely to travel overnight. This would be up from 31% last year. In the interim, 37% of Americans have explained that for leisure, they were likely to travel overnight during the last three months of 2023. This was down slightly from 39% in 2022.

Also, the survey found that travel attitudes have mostly come back to the norms of pre-pandemic times. Now, almost 71% of Americans say that their likelihood of staying in hotels is the same as they had before pandemic.

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