Hotels likely to set new records this year (Hawaii hotel)
HONOLULU (AP) _ Hotel profits should continue to increase this year despite flat occupancy. Hospitality Advisors L-L-C President Joseph Toy told tourism executives yesterday that 2006 room revenue will likely exceed last year's three (b) billion dollar record.
A law that went into effect Thursday is banning smoking within 20 feet of all public buildings in Hawaii, including restaurants, bars, lobbies, offices, arenas, outdoor stadiums and airports. Exceptions include state prisons and hotels, which can designate 20% of their rooms for smokers as long as they are on the same floor.
Fans of the venerable Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, a gorgeous grande-dame oceanfront resort, will be saddened to hear that it closed for repairs this week after engineers found it had been damaged more seriously than first thought by October's earthquake....
Hawaii hotels have been reaping record revenue in this year's "shoulder" season by charging 6.8 percent more per room, offsetting lower room demand.
Waikiki got busier but neighbor island hotels emptied out last week. The bottom of the slow season saw more than half the hotel rooms on Kauai and the Big Island go unsold.
Hotels across Hawaii saw more rooms empty over recent days and the slow season got slower, especially on Kauai and the Big Island.
The recent quake caused some damage to tourist sites. But hotels, restaurants, shops and airports are open for business.
America's average hotel room rate will crack $100 a night in 2007 and 1 billion room nights will be sold, industry analysts told Hawaii tourism executives Thursday, and Hawaii will lead the trend.
A law that went into effect Thursday is banning smoking within 20 feet of all public buildings in Hawaii, including restaurants, bars, lobbies, offices, arenas, outdoor stadiums and airports. Exceptions include state prisons and hotels, which can designate 20% of their rooms for smokers as long as they are on the same floor.
Fans of the venerable Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, a gorgeous grande-dame oceanfront resort, will be saddened to hear that it closed for repairs this week after engineers found it had been damaged more seriously than first thought by October's earthquake....
Hawaii hotels have been reaping record revenue in this year's "shoulder" season by charging 6.8 percent more per room, offsetting lower room demand.
Waikiki got busier but neighbor island hotels emptied out last week. The bottom of the slow season saw more than half the hotel rooms on Kauai and the Big Island go unsold.
Hotels across Hawaii saw more rooms empty over recent days and the slow season got slower, especially on Kauai and the Big Island.
The recent quake caused some damage to tourist sites. But hotels, restaurants, shops and airports are open for business.
America's average hotel room rate will crack $100 a night in 2007 and 1 billion room nights will be sold, industry analysts told Hawaii tourism executives Thursday, and Hawaii will lead the trend.
