London 2012: A hotel first | reuters.com
How gingerly should travel managers and business travellers approach London’s hotels during next summer’s Olympic Games? The UK capital at the end of July and the beginning of August 2012 is going to be a busier place than normal in a city where hotel occupancy rates of 90 percent are common in summer. No matter how many locals flee the capital for calmer climes (Oxford Economics forecasts that the UK will lose £91 million from Londoners heading overseas due to overcrowding fears), hundreds of thousands of Olympics ticket-holders and ticketless hangers-on are expected in town. They’ll all need somewhere to stay.
