I am needing a worldwide Top 100 ranking of cities/destinations that
have the most hotels/hotel rooms ranked by star rating:
e.g
City: Metropolis |Country: Fantasy |5* hotels: 100, Room count 50,000|
4* hotels: 250 |Room count: 100,000 |3* etc. I do not need below 3*,
inns, guest houses b&b etc in the room count.
I also need information on predicted hotel builds up to 2010 which may
change these rankings - i.e. major developments in a city that will
affect their rankings (Dubai is a good example of this with huge
developments over the next 5 years).
I do not particularly need the hotel brands or names, although that
would be an an added benefit. |
Request for Question Clarification by
omnivorous-ga
on
29 Apr 2005 17:57 PDT
Gonker --
This is really 3 separate questions and so it may be good for you to
break it down into separate questions and adjust the pricing as you
see necessary:
1. what are the top 20 (?) U.S. cities and hotel rooms? I've seen
travel information on this, especially since conventions & meeting
planners use it on a daily basis. I don't recall HOW they rank the
rooms -- that might not be available.
2. what are the top 50 (?) non-U.S. cities for hotel rooms. Again, I
don't know about the splits that would be found in room types.
3. I'm not sure about hotel development. An agency or association
tracking hotel data presumably may track new rooms -- or it might be
done separately. Yet another place to look for hotel statistics is in
Wall Street analysts reports, as they're interested in things like
average-price-per-room; occupancy rates & trends; city-by-city trends.
At any rate, researchers don't shy away from complex questions,
particularly when they're fairly priced, as you've done. But they DO
shy away from answering questions incompletely and might worry about
spending lots of time on #1 and #2, for example -- and not be willing
to post anything because they've come up empty-handed on #3.
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA
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Clarification of Question by
gonker44-ga
on
30 Apr 2005 03:16 PDT
Omnivorous, thanks very much for your response and clarification - I
can indeed do that, and indeed placing a value on the questions - it
is the non-US cities that are of most interest to me. I am not
experienced in handling the structure of Google Answers, but will
re-price:
a) US cities: $25
b) US+ non-US cities $ 75
c) future development $25
So I am happy to pay the original $100 on a+b) being answered! If this
is not the way to do it, then please let me know, I hope you may take
this up?
Best regards Gonker
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Request for Question Clarification by
omnivorous-ga
on
30 Apr 2005 07:31 PDT
Gonker44 --
It looks pretty good. Please be sure to be pretty specific about what
you need and what would be nice to have. And I'd encourage you not to
limit yourself to one researcher. Once I saw a question on hot tub
sales in Europe and thought as a professional marketing person,
"That'll be a tough one to find." Someone else answered it in a few
hours. Plus, I anticipate being very busy the next few days.
You might wish to expire this question, so that you're not charged.
You can still refer to it and its question number as an indication of
the breadth of information that you're seeking.
I hope that there's an international association tracking hotels &
hotel development. Obviously doing studies country-by-country is
hard, if only because of language.
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA
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