Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Hotel business picking up at mountain resorts

Mountain resorts in Utah and across the West filled 6 to 7 percent more rooms last month than in January 2010, sustaining the industry’s slow-but-steady growth since the depths of the recession.

Companies that manage 70,000 rooms in Utah resorts reported a 61.7 percent occupancy rate in January, up 7.1 percent from a year earlier, said the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Lodging Report. Salt Lake Tribune