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Room for Savings: Optimizing Hotel Spend - Carlson

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Figure 63: <strong>Hotel</strong> stays of at least three nights account <strong>for</strong> 69% of room nights<br />

8+ nights<br />

4-7 nights<br />

3 nights<br />

2 nights<br />

1 night<br />

Source: CWT Travel Management Institute, based on a survey of travelers (4,892 responses)<br />

Figure 64: Companies can identify destinations that typically involve longer stays and provide<br />

higher category preferred hotels or serviced apartments<br />

One company’s room nights (%)<br />

76<br />

60<br />

45<br />

27<br />

21<br />

21 20<br />

26<br />

19 17 15<br />

12 11<br />

15<br />

19<br />

18<br />

18<br />

30<br />

20 19 21 21<br />

6<br />

6<br />

12<br />

12<br />

10<br />

18<br />

10<br />

14<br />

31<br />

57<br />

19<br />

33 9<br />

20<br />

34<br />

13<br />

21<br />

30<br />

45<br />

48 48<br />

53<br />

Verona<br />

Turin Milan Rio Bangalore St. Louis Minneapolis Madrid Chicago Washington London<br />

de Janeiro<br />

1-4 nights<br />

5-8 nights<br />

9-15 nights >15 nights<br />

Source: CWT Travel Management Institute, based on transaction data <strong>for</strong> one company in 12 cities, January-August 2008

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