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Hotel segregation grows

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Each year traveling becomes more and more expensive. The prices for the fuel grow and the cost of the plane tickets and cruise liners gets higher. Also the other components of a trip are getting more expensive: staying in hotels, catering. So, the thrifty people are ready to refuse from comfort.

The new tendency of the world tourism - is denial of most of the services, cheap and modest rest. Of course, also earlier there were no people that would pay more and just give money away to the tour agencies, but nowadays the concept of the necessary minimum is being seriously transformed. The rest becomes more individually oriented and now more often you can assemble your tour like a constructor - you determine the services and decide on your own - should you pay for one or another component or not.

Most of the fuel crisis impact got the airlines. In spite of the dramatically increased prices, they cannot compensate losses completely and they try to save on services. Also the traditional carriers get closer to the low-coster standards: shortening or complete absence of the first and business class places, catering only for an additional fee, all the luggage is paid separately. The passenger has also arrange his ticket in the Internet on his own (starting from June of this year the world uses only e-tickets) and registration that can be performed online or with the use of a special automatic desk in the airport.

After that an average traveler gets to his destination with such an economic way, he usually prefers to reside in inexpensive 3* hotels or even choses some less-budget options. Last time the tourists prefer to stay in hostels. Only several dozens years ago our parents were absolutely not surprised if in the sanatoriums or hotels they had to share the room with absolutely unknown people and the lavatory was shared with several other rooms. Now a single or double room and a shower in the toilet became so usual for us, that nobody even thinks about an option when he will have to live with a couple of strangers and take shower at another floor. The Europeans are actually moving now back to the communal past: 6-8 two-storeyed beds in a room, one lavatory and a kitchen instead of a restaurant, where you can cook on your own. Such lodging becomes a serious alternative to inexpensive hotels with lots of facilities and obligatory breakfast that is included in the cost of the room. In the meantime, hostels are getting slowly closer to the hotels: you can reserve a single or double room. To attract clients they also arrange fitness studios and mini-cinemas. Hostels have been positioned earlier only as youth-lodging - as a best option for the students of modest means, and now they attract people of greater age - visitors that are 25-34 years old - and not less than 18-24 years old guests and about 15% of reservations are made by those who are older than 35. The total reservations amount in hostels increases each year almost twice.

However, the luxury rest sector will not disappear. There are more and more luxury hotels in the world and the exclusive boutique hotels with national colour and individual approach to the guests are of greater demand. Earlier - the well-off Europeans that are still not millionaires, could afford some luxury for them, and now most of them have to shorten their needs: the luxury offers are getting more and more expensive and they are targeted mostly to the very rich part of the travelers. So, a pool in the room or even a separate part of the beach, an individual berth with a yacht become necessary attributes of an expensive rest. Wealthy people have already visited all the popular resorts and are fed up with these. The representatives of the world largest hotel networks tell that such tourists prefer it to be absolutely exclusive - not a single room, but apartments with private garden, not a small fitness studio, but a sport complex with an opportunity to hire a personal trainer to make the training program completely individual. Now the hoteliers of the whole planet rack their brains in search of new details that would help to attract wealthy tourists.

The least popular have become the hotels of the middle class - 4*. Each year the tourists are getting more and more segregated: the travelers with average incomes choose hostels and 3* hotels and those who are very wealthy - won't even pay any attention to the offers less than 5*.

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Article Submitted On: July 9, 2008