Survey

American flyers willing to pay more for personal space

Findings from a new Harris Poll show that among Americans who travel by commercial airline once or more per year, many are looking for personal space to stretch out in-flight, with 58% willing to pay for extra legroom on a longer flight (3+ hours) and over half (53%) willing to shell out to avoid the dreaded middle seat on such a flight.

Hotel pipeline

STR reports a 9.2-percent increase in the number of rooms in the US for April 2013

April rooms under construction increased 18.5 percent compared with April 2012 but were slightly down from March 2013 in the US. The Europe hotel development pipeline comprises 814 hotels totalling 134,912 rooms, according to the April 2013 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report.