The Number of Hotel Rooms in Major Cities

[mhays]

Part of a city's hotel room count is based on the city's size. But there's a ton of variation...it's really about whether you can draw people from elsewhere.

A freeway exit with five residents can have 200 hotel rooms. A resort city of 50,000 residents can have 10,000 rooms. A metro of 1,000,000 residents can have 10,000 rooms.

[HelloMoto163]

berlin has 108.000 hotel rooms

[oliver999]

i cant believe a world class city only has 10000 hotel rooms.

[Federicoft]

44,100 hotel rooms in Rome city proper, and further 9,700 in the metro.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17890728/P...oma-marzo-2009

[Jim856796]

Rio de Janeiro, by the time they're gonna host the 2016 Summer Olympics, is to have at least 49,750 hotel rooms. Some of the rooms may be concentrated in condominiums and in this thread, codominiums shouldn't be in the hotel room count.

[Jim856796]

Originally Posted by Federicoft

44,100 hotel rooms in Rome city proper, and further 9,700 in the metro.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17890728/P...oma-marzo-2009

Wow, a city has that many hotel rooms, none of which are in skyscrapers. Rome is usually considered a lowrise city, and all of its tallest buildings are used for offices.

[ArkinMourad]

many rooms

[HelloMoto163]

Berlin will have 115.000 rooms next year.

[tommy949]

Who knows how much Guangzhou has now?

[Der wahre Heino]

According to this article from the worldwide renowned Frankfurter Neue Presse 7 new hotels opened in Frankfurt in 2009, rising the number of hotel beds to 34 000.
I have no idea how that translates into hotel rooms.

Frankfurt had 5,34 millions overnight guests in 2009, 2,34 millions of them being from abroad.

These figures are city proper ones, no idea about RheinMain area numbers.

[Jim856796]

And did I forget to mention? A host city for the Winter Olympic Games has to have at least 25,000 rooms. The 40,000 number applies to the Summer Olympic Games.

[hudkina]

Originally Posted by Jim856796

I saw a film named "The Detroit You've Never Met", which is about Detroit being a candidate for the 1968 Olympic Games (which were held in Mexico City) and the second part of the film stated that Detroit had 45,000 motel and hotel rooms. The film was made in 1961. That number of rooms declined along with the city and I don't know how many rooms Detroit has now.

I highly doubt the number of hotel rooms has declined. They just moved to the suburbs... Granted, even today there are over 5,000 rooms in the Downtown area including over 1,200 in the Renaissance Center and over 2,000 that have been constructed in the last 10 years.

[mhays]

I wouldn't be surprised if the 1961 figure included a lot of short-term worker "hotels," i.e. a more liberal definition of hotel. Two reasons:

1. This is a guess, but maybe there was more migrant urban labor back then. This is common throughout the world (for example rural people doing factory work in the cities and sending money home) and always has been. I don't know what Detroit's experience was.

2. Olympic bid supporters tend to use the most liberal numbers possible.

[hudkina]

While it's true that there were a lot of short-term hotels that no longer exist, I would say that they have been replaced for the most part with the likes of Best Western, Days Inn, Motel 6, Super 8, etc. The difference is that most of those hotels are now in suburban areas along the interstates as opposed to the Greater Downtown area. While I'm sure plenty of touristy cities probably have over 10,000 hotel rooms in their downtowns, I would say 5,000+ hotel rooms for Downtown Detroit isn't bad, especially considering there are nearly 2,000 more hotel rooms across the river in Downtown Windsor. If there are 7,000 rooms within a 2 miles radius of Comerica Park in Downtown Detroit, I wouldn't doubt that the 10 county region has well over 40,000. The airport alone has over two dozen hotels with I'm sure well over 2,000 rooms. Then there's Dearborn, Southfield, Troy, Ann Arbor, etc. not to mention the hundreds of motels/hotels that sit along the interstates throughout the metro area.

In fact, looking online, I see this article that states that the region had nearly 43,000 rooms in mid 2009. I don't think that includes Essex County in Windsor which would bring the total to over 45,000.

[dfwcre8tive]

Dallas has over 70,000 hotel rooms made up of a variety of brand, location, and price point.
16 Hotels with a total of 6,564 hotel rooms are within a 2 mile radius of the Dallas Convention Center.
34 Hotels with a total of 11,453 hotel rooms are within a 5 mile radius of the Dallas Convention Center.
54 Hotels with a total of 15,546 hotel rooms are within a 10 miles radius of the Dallas Convention Center.

http://www.visitdallas.com/plan_a_me...t/faqs/#faq_01

[mhays]

I've always been shocked by how few rooms are in Downtown Dallas and Downtown Houston. The centers of our, what, 9th and 10th largest cities (or thereabouts), each with a massive amount of downtown offices and a big convention center?

[hudkina]

They're not big tourist cities. Besides places like New York, Chicago, San Francisco and maybe Miami are there really that many cities that have a ton of downtown hotel rooms? It would seem most of the hotel rooms in non-touristy cities are located in major suburban centers as well as along the major interstates. Am I wrong?

[mhays]

Several have a lot more than they do. Seattle has 12,000 and Vancouver has, iirc, about 13,000, both in a lot smaller radii than two miles. Denver has about 7,000. Portland somewhere around there too including the Lloyd District across the river. I'd guess that San Diego, Boston, and Philly probably have sizeable numbers too. Maybe San Antonio, New Orleans, DC....

I know Dallas and Houston aren't tourist magnets. But just their volume of downtown office space and the big convention centers ought to count for something.

The convention market is interesting. Some cities focus on small conventions, such as Seattle, and if every attendee wants to be within a short walk they can all fit. But it seems to be common for cities to focus on conventions that require many attendees to stay outside the core, and go back and forth by shuttle bus.

To counter my own comments, the biggest problem with a city relying on conventions is that your center won't be booked all the time, and even if you're 100% booked, half the time is used for setup and takedown. Unless you have more than one convention space (as some cities do), you're expecting hotels to be built based upon being busy 1/4 or 1/3 of the time, and generally slow otherwise. That's why subsidies are often needed, and even then it's a risky prospect for a developer and hotel operator.

[Matthew Lowry]

How many Hotels Rooms dose Brisbane and Gold Coast Have?
How Many Hotels Rooms dose Athens have?
How many Hotels Rooms dose Los Angeles Have?

[kjetilab]

Oslo, Norway, had on May 1. 2010 9.727 hotel rooms with 17.421 beds.
The surrounding county of Akershus had 5.905 rooms with 11.479 beds

Source: http://www.ssb.no/emner/10/11/overna...-06-30-01.html