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The Number of Hotel Rooms in Major Cities

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#1 ·
I started this thread because there could be many major cities with over 10,000 hotel rooms. I don't know the city with the most hotel rooms, but the city with that distinction is probably Las Vegas, Nevada. It has about 140,000 of them. There is a requirement that Olympic host cities must have at least 40,000 hotel rooms in the 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star categories.
 
#133 ·
Not really. In some cities, international visitors stay much longer on average than in other cities. In London and Paris for example, a lot of people take weekend trips and even day trips from other countries. Both have massive numbers of tourists but it's not a parallel with hotel rooms. Also, domestic visitors are the majority of tourists in many places, and a significant factor nearly everywhere minus Luxemboug et al.
 
#135 · (Edited by Moderator)
actually those city visitor numbers count only those who spend overnight stays, not daytrippers or passers-through, that would put the 'visitor' numbers over 100 million (in contrast places like NYC does count daytrippers in their figures and thus 'tallies up' 46 million). Actually going solely by numbers of nights rented (as opposed to numbers of visitors renting), London would top the list - although 30 million of these people overnight, they spend over 100 million nights in hotels, multiple times more than any other city.
 
#134 ·
#136 · (Edited)
Tourism statistics counts rooms ? Not in Germany. Here the data is based on the available number of beds, which makes more sense IMHO, because a dormitory with 12 is unlike a 2-bedroom. Right ?

The data for Berlin in 2010 was: 700 Hotels, 110.000 Beds, 9 million hotel guests, 20 million hotel overnight stays booked (one bed for one night).

Berlin is assumed to be the third most visited city in Europe by now.
 
#139 ·
a city's count, in Europe anyway, doesnt count daytrippers. Neither does it count domestic visitors on the international counts or people passing through or nights spent in hotels . If it did the numbers would each inflate to over 100 million, especially in the case of London or Paris.
 
#140 ·
In the US, numbers are counted in totally different ways by different organizations, and generally not comparable from one city to the next.

There is no perfect way to count visitors, because the information isn't there. So you generally rely on credit card use, or hotel nights, or other imperfect data. Each method missed a massive percentage of the total, while many methods add to the total.

For example the credit card method will include people who drove or flew through and bought lunch on their way to somewhere else, but exclude anyone who didn't use a credit card, as well as other party members.

The hotel method only guesstimates the number of people per room, while totally missing anyone who didn't stay at a hotel.

The immigration visa method misses anyone traveling within a country or within the EU.

Some specific attractions count "visitors," then try to compare themselves to other attractions. Malls do this, but fail to mention that a large percentage of their visitors are teenyboppers who might account for 50 visits per year apiece. Even streets and prominent intersections do this, despite large percentages being just office workers who might hit that street 20 times per week. Entire districts compare themselves to specific buildings that charge admission.

I'd be curious to see a description of any "master" system used to count visitors in Europe.
 
#145 ·
Most regions have an industry group or agency that tracks occupancy rates. Equilibrium is often considered to be 70% or so.

Of course room rates, operating costs, and construction costs are big factors beyond basic occupancy levels, in terms of what gets built.
 
#146 ·
I checked a webpage from the official Olympics website (PART II: CANDIDATURE FILE - International Olympic Committee) and the accommodation section said that the minimum number of rooms required for an Olympic host city is not 40,000, but actually 20,000.
 
#148 ·
Doha's hotel room count is 9,000, though that is liable to expand because of it's country's (Qatar) hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
 
#152 ·
Absolutely. There are tons of examples of cities with too many rooms, and cities with too few.

Amsterdam has too few. If you show up without a reservation, there might be no room in town at any price.

What counts as "too many" varies in terms of occupancy rate. In some cheaper cities, 60% occupancy might be ok, with low operations costs and rates that are high enough. In other cities, anything below 70% or even 80%+ is problematic, perhaps even despite high room rates. It's all about the assumptions hotel owners and operators make when they decide to build, or sign a deal to manage a property. If results are below what they assume, they can fail.

Seattle once overbuilt dramatically. In 1980, the Downtown core had 2,000 or 2,500 rooms. Two years later, a 750-room historic hotel had been reconfigured as a high-end 450-room hotel, and 2,500 new rooms had been added, for a net addition of 2,200 rooms.

The result was years of extremely low occupancies. One positive was that the hotels convinced the State to build a convention center right Downtown, which opened in 1989 or so. Seattle also gained some tourism catchet during that period, possibly aided by cheaper rooms.

After that, I don't recall a ton of new hotels until 1995 or so. From 1995 to 2010 there were always hotels under construction, resulting in a room count of 12,000 for Downtown (probably a wider area than the 1980 count).
 
#151 ·
Salvador - 37.700 hotel rooms

Florianópolis - 31.000 hotel rooms

Belo Horizonte Metropolitan - 30.194 hotel rooms

Natal - 26.000 hotel rooms

Fortaleza - 26.000 hotel rooms

Brasília - 25.000 hotel rooms

Foz do Iguaçu - 22.000 hotel roomsn

Balneário Camburiu - 20.000 hotel rooms

Maceió - 19.000 hotem rooms
 
#155 ·
County equals Municipality for this matters lol.


According the source and its title, they are international lol.

Source: (International) Tourist arrival (source: Euromonitor Intenational. Top 150 City Destinations Ranking.


Definitions

International arrivals by city includes visitors from abroad that arrive at the city under review as their first point of entry, and also includes those visitors to the city that arrived in the country via a different point of entry, but then go on to visit the city in question during their trip.

Arrivals refers to international tourists, ie any person visiting another country for at least 24 hours, for a period not exceeding 12 months, and staying in collective or private accommodation. Each arrival is counted separately and includes people travelling more than once a year and people visiting several countries during one holiday. Domestic visitors are excluded.

Euromonitor International’s arrival figures exclude same-day visitors, transit and cruise passengers as this can distort arrival figures at important border crossings and cruise destinations respectively. It also excludes those in paid employment abroad. Students that stay in a country for a period of more than 12 months are excluded and are considered as residents of the country of temporary residence. Military personnel and transportation crew are excluded, along with displaced people because of war or natural disasters. The ranking focuses on capital city hubs and tends to exclude beach and ski resorts that may enjoy high volumes of international visitors.
 
#157 ·
Not at all. Most of the people walking around New York are living and working there. Most people in Vegas are there for fun and vacation. Before you even get to the strip or downtown Vegas, there are numerous huge self contained casino hotel chains that would be the largest hotel in many cities. Once on the strip you're talking about a large North American downtown's worth of absolutely huge hotels. So huge that you're talking about dominating the list of the top 20 largest hotels in the world. Until I went there, the size of these hotels never really dawned upon me. They are much taller than they look in pictures because of their wide mass. I'd guess many of them have super tall like square footage or greater. Just absolutely massive buildings, and these places are pretty full all the time.
 
#160 ·
I'm really suprised by the low numbers for some of the cities outside the US.

Its not a major city, but its in the area where I grew up. Branson, MO has 18,000 hotel rooms. The city has an official population of about 10,500 but there are usually 60,000-70,000 people in the city on any given day during the tourist season.
 
#161 · (Edited)
In Mexico there are 335,113 hotel bedrooms in 70 included locations (2009)

Mexico City 46,959
Mayan Riviera 33,968
Cancun 28,906
Acapulco 18,447
Guadalajara 15,345
Los Cabos 12,220
Monterrey 12,030
Puerto Vallarta 11,322
Mazatlán 9,214
Veracruz 8,863
Nuevo Vallarta 5,988
Querétaro 5825
Puebla 5,605
Mérida 5,322
Oaxaca 5,261
León 5,124
Ixtapa Zihuatanejo 5,137
Cozumel 4,492
Tijuana 4,779
Ciudad Juárez 4,089
Aguascalientes 3,970
San Luis Potosí 3,865
Morelia 3,940
Chihuahua 3,974
Manzanillo 3,539
Tuxtla Gutiérrez 3,489
Villahermosa 3,373
Huatulco 3,368
San Juan de los Lagos 3,264
San Cristóbal de las Casas 3,035
Zacatecas 2,992
Toluca 3,454
Hermosillo 2,773
Guanajuato 2,735
Xalapa 2,3535
Palenque 2,328
Mexicali 2,268
Culiacán 2,147
Playas de Rosarito 2,173
Puerto Escondido 2,113
Celaya 1,937
La Paz 1,638
Durango 1,559
Pachuca 1,548
Irapuato 1,507
San Miguel de Allende 1,664
Coatzacoalcos 1,445
Campeche 1,341
Los Mochis 1,279
Isla Mujeres 1,123
Piedras Negras 982
San Felipe 973
Colima 948
San Juan del Río 916
Taxco 880
Tequisquiapan 863
Comitán de Domínguez 709
Loreto 717
Tonalá-Puerto Arista 593
Salamanca 564
Valle de Bravo 532
El Fuerte 389
Tecate 312
 
#162 ·
gabrielbabb said:
In Mexico there are 335,113 hotel bedrooms in 70 included locations

Mexico City 46,959
Mayan Riviera 33,968
Cancun 28,906
Acapulco 18,447
Guadalajara 15,345
Los Cabos 12,220
Monterrey 12,030
Puerto Vallarta 11,322
Mazatlán 9,214
Veracruz 8,863
Nuevo Vallarta 5,988
Querétaro 5825
Puebla 5,605
Mérida 5,322
Oaxaca 5,261
León 5,124
Ixtapa Zihuatanejo 5,137
Cozumel 4,492
Tijuana 4,779
Ciudad Juárez 4,089
Aguascalientes 3,970
San Luis Potosí 3,865
Morelia 3,940
Chihuahua 3,974
Manzanillo 3,539
Tuxtla Gutiérrez 3,489
Villahermosa 3,373
Huatulco 3,368
San Juan de los Lagos 3,264
San Cristóbal de las Casas 3,035
Zacatecas 2,992
Toluca 3,454
Hermosillo 2,773
Guanajuato 2,735
Xalapa 2,3535
Palenque 2,328
Mexicali 2,268
Culiacán 2,147
Playas de Rosarito 2,173
Puerto Escondido 2,113
Celaya 1,937
La Paz 1,638
Durango 1,559
Pachuca 1,548
Irapuato 1,507
San Miguel de Allende 1,664
Coatzacoalcos 1,445
Campeche 1,341
Los Mochis 1,279
Isla Mujeres 1,123
Piedras Negras 982
San Felipe 973
Colima 948
San Juan del Río 916
Taxco 880
Tequisquiapan 863
Comitán de Domínguez 709
Loreto 717
Tonalá-Puerto Arista 593
Salamanca 564
Valle de Bravo 532
El Fuerte 389
Tecate 312
Aguascalientes has 4400 as of today...
 
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