Visitors from Hong Kong spent the most per hotel room night in India in thefirst half of 2015

Chandigarh, 7thOctober 2015: Hotels.com™, the global hotel bookings expert, revealed the list of top spenders inIndia in its latestHotel Price Index™ (HPI™). The HPI is respected as the definitive report on average hotel prices paid* per night across the world. According to the report,travellers from Hong Kong spent the most per hotel room night while staying in India in the first six months of 2015. On an average they paid Rs. 8,325per night in this period, which is 4% higher than the price paid in the same period last year.

The report also revealed that Swiss travellers, who took the top position for two consecutive years (2013 and 2014),slipped down this year, taking the fifth position thereby making way for visitors from the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong.


Overall there was a decline in the spending patterns of international travellers visiting India as compared to the first half of last year. Travellers from Hong Kong, the United States, United Kingdom and Singapore saw a marginal rise in the price paid per night in India in the first half of 2015. Italians who recorded the largestincrease last year ranking 3rdon the top spenders list,saw the biggest fall this year with adecline of 17% in prices paid per night year-over-year and thus exiting the top ten ranking of the spenders list. Meanwhile travellers from Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Germany and Australia helped secure their countries on the top spenders list by grabbing the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th places respectively.



The average price paid for a hotel room per night in India in H1 2015 compared with H1 2014 by visiting country

Rank


Country/ Region





H1 2015


H1 2014


% Change

1


Hong Kong





8,325


8,016


4%

2


USA





7,539


7,124


6%

3


United Kingdom





7,517


7,386


2%

4


Singapore





7,449


7,195


4%

5


Switzerland





7,407


8,590


-14%

6


Brazil





7,149


6,431


11%

7


South Korea





7,066


7,047


0%

8


Japan





6,986


6,880


2%

9


Germany





6,798


6,749


1%

10


Australia





6,779


6,363


7%

11


Denmark





6,696


6,377


5%

12


Netherlands





6,630


6,119


8%

13


China





6,534


7,084


-8%

14


Canada





6,417


7,039


-9%

15


Taiwan





6,389


5,622


14%

16


Norway





6,346


6,888


-8%

17


Italy





6,310


7,584


-17%

18


Mexico





6,157


6,710


-8%

19


Sweden





6,072


6,262


-3%

20


New Zealand





5,748


5,951


-3%

21


France





5,606


5,411


4%

22


Malaysia





5,573


5,646


-1%

23


Russia





5,481


4,812


14%

24


Spain





5,413


6,194


-13%


About Hotel Price Index (HPI):



The HPI is a regular report on hotel prices in major destinations across the world, tracking the movement in prices that people actually paid for their accommodation and providing valuable insight into the reasons behind these changes. The data is drawn from bookings made on the hundreds of thousands of hotels on the Hotels.com websites worldwide.

*Average prices paid per night include taxes and fees.



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Originally Source : Perfect Relations