Welcome to The Ultimate Hotel Guide

Despite economic turmoil, 2008 will be noted as the year when more hotel rooms came on line than any year in history. And Travel Weekly’s second annual Ultimate Hotel Guide will help you sort what all this development can mean for your agency’s business.

You are looking at a unique professional resource, one that combines analysis, features, hotel listings and ratings, maps and destination information. It’s both a guide to help you sharpen your expertise and a tool to help you book clients in the property that best meets their needs.

Ultimate Hotel Guide draws from the staff expertise of three unique resources — Travel Weekly, the national newspaper of the travel industry, the Northstar Travel Media hotel database (acknowledged as the broadest and deepest in the world) and Weissmann Reports, the leading provider of comprehensive, unbiased destination information to the travel industry. Among the changes you’ll notice in this year’s edition are increased calendar listings and more restaurant reviews and show times (take a look at our newly expanded Las Vegas section).

The articles in the front of the guide will give you a deeper understanding of what’s happening on the hotel scenes worldwide. Our hotels editor, Jeri Clausing, has assembled articles with an eye to providing insights that will be invaluable in helping you and your clients choose the exact right properties.

The articles also explore what we believe will be the hotspots of the future. We report on the most unusual requests concierges have ever heard, check out “glamping” (glamour + camping … plus commissions), and revisit some mature hospitality brands and discover they’ve moved far beyond their staid beige roots.

All in all, the combination of insight, listings and destination information will prepare you to give the best service to the travelers who seek your advice on where to stay. We hope you’re pleased with this new and improved version of the Ultimate Hotel Guide, but if you have any suggestions about how to make it better for next year, please write to me.

With best wishes,
Arnie Weissmann
Editor in Chief, Travel Weekly

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FEATURES
After the Boom — 8
Investing in the Future — 10
The Aloha Spirit — 14
Greening the Tropics — 18
Behind the Scenes — 20
Renovation Nation — 22
Hotel Couture — 24
Roughing It (Sort of) — 26
At Your Service — 28

AFTER THE BOOM
Record Capital Expenditures Result in New Worldwide Hotel

New hotels will be opening in record numbers across the globe in 2009, the culmination of a three-year building boom on which the industry embarked during one of the best periods in its history.

Whether state-of-the-art luxury hotels under construction from Mexico to Vietnam to Russia and China, or a host of new upscale and midlevel properties in North America, global travelers will see more new hotels open in 2009 than ever before, according to Patrick Ford, president of Lodging Econometrics. ...

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