During the summer of 2012, hotel occupation rates increased 8.9% compared to figures for 2011.
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Of course, travelers long conditioned to pricing pessimism can expect some pain this summer, too: Hotel prices are up, travel bookings sites say.
But over the summer, relations between the hotel and residents were also strained.
For example, the Wythe Hotel, which opened last summer in a former barrel factory in Williamsburg, offers a rawer industrial aesthetic and a burgeoning social calendar.
"Laos will be the high point of your entire trip, " my travel agent told me before I embarked on a 32-night, 14-hotel jaunt through Southeast Asia last summer.
Indeed, during a visit earlier this summer, business was brisk at a Ravella hotel bar which has Tuscan-inspired views of manicured hedges surrounding a fire pit, with customers sipping martinis and noshing on pappardelle with veal meatballs.
The Moscow hotel industry has also had a good summer, helped by the city's 850th anniversary celebrations in September, which drew at least 1m Russian and foreign visitors.
New York's venerable Le Cirque, owned by the Maccioni family, which has eight restaurants in New York, Las Vegas, Dominican Republic and New Delhi, did a pop-up late last summer, produced by Mr. Philips, in a hotel on the city's Lower East Side.
The Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts will open a Corbu spa this summer.
Now, he says, the hotel is fully booked with Israeli families for the rest of the summer and into the fall, during the Jewish holidays.
On a sunny afternoon last summer, Armani visited the half-constructed suites and roof-terrace spa of his hotel in Milan, which opened in November.
The renovation of the hotel, which currently has about 20 rooms, is due to start in the summer.
To find a chef for the hotel's Italian-themed Il Lago restaurant, a Four Seasons manager spent the summer traveling throughout Italy, sampling the gastronomic delights of various Michelin-starred chefs--an enviable task indeed.
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