Hotels in London at a Boom

London – the capital of United Kingdom is amongst the top most tourists destinations despite of the downturn in the economy. It was revealed by the European tourism industry that this year London has been the most popular tourist attraction and the fastest climbers. The director of the popular search engine Skyscanner – Barry Smith, commented that London is the most searched destination in US, Rome, Paris, Frankfurt and Dublin.

The performance of the London Hotel industry is thus on an upward trail. The strong hold of Euro has helped tourism in UK to boost tremendously and thus the hoteliers across the city have a reason to be optimistic even in this period of recession. A clear trend of improvement in the growth of London hotel can be seen over the last five months. The London hotels are also showing a remarkable growth in offering business facilities other than the accommodations. This signifies that the worst for the hoteliers is over for the London hotel industry at least. Both the weekend demand for leisure and pleasure and the corporate conferencing and events have shown an increase since last few months. The London hotels have now achieved new and sky-scraping standards of proving luxury accommodation services.

Although the hotels in London are at a boom but the hotels outside the capital are still continuing to struggle in this recession period.  The hotel prices in the hotels in London increased in the month of May 2009 but the rates were constantly decreasing in the regional hotels and the hotels outside London. The figures of occupancy in the hotels outside the capital were down by around 5.6% and thus hoteliers launched several discount packages to attract the tourists. The average room rates in these hotels were also decreasing frequently. The London hotels in Liverpool and the hotels in Manchester were also had an adverse effect as per the details announced by the PKF’s hotel consultancy services.

London is home to numerous luxury hotels which are not only popular in Europe but are also globally renowned hospitality brands. You can easily find hotels of varied range in almost all the regions of the city. From cheap hotels to highly luxurious hotels, London is home to a variety of accommodations that can suit your budgets. Grange hotels, Intercontinental group of hotels, Holiday Inn, Le Meridian etc are some of the most popular hotel groups in London.  These hotels not only offer comfort and leisure facilities but, they also provide you to manage your trip. Facilities such as airport shuttle, car rental, currency exchange, tour desk helps you explore the city in a better way and make your trip memorable. You can also opt for budgeted accommodations such as hostels, lounge, apartments and family run hotels in London.