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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (9035)	3/1/2004 11:23:44 AM
From: russwinter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Hotel room inflation, another on the "excluded " or just "fail to report" lists, for sure? Business travelers are pushing up lodging rates 2/27/2004 Purchasing.com Business travelers are pushing lodging usage rates and prices upward, says Jack Corgel of the Hospitality Research Group, with full-service hotel-room demand jumping 6.3% and average room rates increasing 4.9%. 'A late-2003 upswing in occupancies is expected to continue throughout 2004,' he says, 'driven by a strengthening U.S. economy and continued lessening of the fear of potential hotel users to travel.'