Research presented at the annual conference of the Global Business Travel Association this month (July 15- 20) in Denver presented a mixed picture of what planners could expect in the coming months when it comes to negotiating 2017 hotel rates. For North America, the trade group for travel managers is predicting hotel rates will jump an average 4 percent, the steepest increase of any global region. In fact, projected rates in most other regions (Asia Pacific and the Middle East & Africa among them) are expected to decline, compared to 2016.

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