Hotel Availability Begins To Supersede Price As Priority | btnonline.com
With hotel occupancy at its highest levels in some cities since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, travel managers are finding availability for travelers in some cities as important as price, if not more critical. This quest is leading to an upswing in room allotments, in which buyers have a quota of rooms permanently assigned to them, but which can be released to the hotel either 24 or 48 hours in advance.