Orlando hotel occupancy down

from yesterday's Orlando Sentinel (10/22):

Occupancy erodes at Orlando-area hotels in September
Sara K. Clarke
Sentinel Staff Writer
October 22, 2008

"Fewer than half of Orlando's hotel rooms were filled in September, as the area's overall occupancy rate fell by more than 10 percent from a year earlier.

Occupancy in the Orlando market was 45.9 percent last month, compared with 51.1 percent in September 2007, according to data released Tuesday by Smith Travel Research.

A slumping economy and high gas prices combined with the threat of hurricanes to keep tourists away. Revenue per available room, a key industry measure, was down 11.9 percent from a year ago." ...

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