How far London hotels have come in the seven years since winning the Olympics [INFOGRAPHIC]

July 24, 2012 By Linda Fox Leave a Comment

Following yesterday’s round-up of hotel availability and discounts for London 2012, here’s a snapshot of what has happened to the hotel sector in the Capital in the seven years since winning the bid.

While yesterday’s data was a collection of intelligence gathered from various online accommodation specialists, today’s is more of a sector overview from the number crunchers at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

As per the infographic, both luxury and budget hotel sectors have seen considerable growth in terms of number of rooms while average daily rate and occupancy have also increased.

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About Linda Fox

Linda Fox is a reporter for Tnooz. For the past six years she has worked as a freelance journalist across a range of B2B titles including Travolution, ABTA Magazine, Travelmole and the Business Travel Magazine.

In this time she has also undertaken corporate projects for a number of high profile travel technology, travel management and research companies.

Prior to her freelance career she covered hotels and technology news for Travel Trade Gazette for seven years. Linda joined TTG from Caterer & Hotelkeeper where she worked on the features desk for more than five years.