Utah’s hotel business continues to improve

Hotels statewide filled 63.9 percent of their rooms last month, up from 60.2 percent in September 2009. That’s the seventh straight month in which occupancy levels exceeded year-earlier numbers. The monthly rate of improvement is consistent with the year-over-year gain for the January-through-September period. It is up 2.5 percent this year from 2009, rising to 62.4 percent, according to the latest monthly report from the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Lodging Report. Salt Lake Tribune