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THE HOTEL INDUSTRY is one of the badly hit sectors across the world due to COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as expected, the recovery process is also slow in the segment. But there are some changes in hotels happened due to the pandemic. Experts say that these will be permanent in the future. Hilton has listed seven temporary adjustments which will become permanent and the impact of the pandemic on hotel stays in the future. These are the predictions in hotel experience from Hilton which travelers can expect in years to come. Hotel design The future of hotel public space design will embrace social distancing, enable contactless guest journeys, and deliver innovative new ways of blurring the lines between indoors and out.

THE OMICRON COVID-19 variant could derail the hotel industry's fledgling recovery if countries like the U.S. move forward to tighten testing policies, according to HotStats. Future hotel bookings, meetings and other hotel-related activity will be impacted by the expectation of travel impediments, whether self-imposed, company-imposed or government-mandated, it added. In the U.S., major indices were still down double digits in October 2021 compared to same month two years ago, according to a blog post by HotStats. "Since a rapid uptick in occupancy from the beginning of the year through the summer, hitting an apex in July, occupancy in the U.S. has since more or less flatlined, a signal that the leisure boom could not be sustained at the same levels prior," said HotStats. "Though much maligned, there is propitious data surfacing in corporate travel. In October, corporate ADR was $7 higher than in October 2019 and $35 higher than in the previous month. Corporate volume mix, defined as the proportion of rooms sold at the corporate rate compared to total rooms sold, has grown 6 percentage points since July."

U.S. HOTEL PERFORMANCE dropped in the fifth week of September as expected with the Rosh Hashanah holiday, according to STR. ADR and RevPAR were up during the week when compared to 2019, but occupancy was down. Occupancy was 66.4 percent for the week ending Oct. 1, down from 70 percent the week before and decreased 2.4 percent from 2019. ADR was $149.71 for the week, dropped from $157.99 the week before and increased 15.7 percent from three years ago. RevPAR reached $99.36 during the week, down from $110.60 the week before and up 12.9 percent from 2019. According to STR, there was demand shifts in the southeast region due to Hurricane Ian besides the Rosh Hashanah impact on business travel and groups.

Inbound tourism in Brazil recovered following a brief decline due to the financial crisis in 2009. Domestic and outbound tourism registered steady growth during the review period (2008?2012) and had a positive impact on the country's economy.

The cost of making reservation with airlines has decreased significantly in the past few years, especially after deregulation of the aviation sector. Reports show that the affordability has increased leaving a positive impact on the tourism industry.

Availability of cheap flight tickets has been a major point of research for almost everyone related to aviation, be it travel experts, airlines or passengers. Travelling cheap seems to be the ultimate factor, which has a say in the sale of air tickets. A major aspect in this regard is the evolution of low-cost carriers (LCCs), which have had a major impact in the aviation industry in the last decade.