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Mar 28, 2006
British tourists were able to
take advantage of falling hotel prices in the last part of last year, while Glasgow offered some of the best value-for-money hotel
deals in Europe, a survey by Hotels.com found.
Survey results show that average
one-night hotel prices in Glasgow
in the period October-December were £64 - a 11% drop on the same period in
2004. This put the Scottish city only a short way behind the best
value-for-money city in the survey - Budapest
- where the average price in the last three months of 2005 was £60.
Based mainly on hotels in
Europe and the USA, the
survey showed that prices also fell at hotels in other UK cities. The average Manchester price in
October-December for a one-night stay was £76 - 4% down on the same period in
2004. Edinburgh fell 5% to £87, Dublin
was down 11% at £75 and London
also dipped 12% to £81. Overall, European prices fell 8.7% in the last three
months of last year compared with the same period in 2004, while American
prices rose 2.3%.
David Roche, European
managing director of Hotels.com, told the Press Association that, “European
prices took a tumble in 2005, so we will watch with interest whether they
recover in 2006, and whether spring city-breakers push prices up as they have
in previous years. Meanwhile, we will also see whether the Americans can
sustain the price increases we saw in 2005 - or whether prices have now topped
out and falling demand will force them to come down once again.”
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