At the Cote is a terrific d’Azur also only slightly cooler autumn and so, tourists between October and December paid considerably more favourable destination, only 276 euro for the same performance. Manhattan strikes Mainhattan most popular foreign tourist destination of German tourists was also in the third quarter of 2008 New York. Although New York worldwide among the top three of the most expensive cities in hotel, many travellers took advantage of the favorable dollar exchange rate for a trip to the Big Apple. The hotels in Las Vegas (fourth place), San Francisco (sixth), Los Angeles (ranked 11th) and Miami (16th) reduced average hotel rates for the benefit of a high load so drastically that many tourists have benefited from the discounted rates and cheap shopping in the United States took advantage of the opportunity. Sightseeing in Europe within the European foreign London (seventh place) was most sought after during the investigation period. The Thames town is but also currently recommended for a short break, because the pound has reached an all time low. This is mainly for fashion-conscious city travellers cheap, in addition to the sale further drastically reduced since British labels.

Nine of the popularity rankings finished Vienna, followed by Paris (10th), Stockholm (place 12), Copenhagen (14th), and Amsterdam (17th). Only Rome (18th) and Barcelona (20th place) were geographically to the South and last ranked the top-20 of the most popular destinations of German traveller. The hotel price index is available as a free download at deutsch.hotels.com/..hotel-price-index-2008-herbst.pdf. The HPI by Hotels.com hotel price index (HPI), at regular intervals by the world’s most popular hotel booking portal is published and is based on the bookings, sheds light on the evolution of global hotel prices. The HPI is based on prices per room per night from about 68,000 hotels in all star categories in more than 12,500 destinations around the world. The prices shown in the HPI based on the prices set by the hoteliers and actually paid by the guest and not officially designated room rates. Thus, a genuine rendition of the hotel prices is guaranteed within the studied period. The international dissemination of Hotels.com (customers both tourist destinations) and the mix of independent private hotels and hotel chains make the HPI the most reliable index of prices for individual travellers on the market.

In Europe, the remaining independent houses includes about 25 percent of all hotel rooms to hotel chains. The opposite picture shows in the United States. About Hotels.com, Hotels.com is the world’s most visited website of the hotel and the global hotel specialist. The global hotel portfolio comprises 80,000 quality hotels. A customer finds the same booking at another provider competitive rates, Hotels.com will refund the difference in price. In addition, Hotels.com has one of the largest independent hotel teams in the industry to deliver an objective description of the hotels bookable on Hotels.com. Travelers can book online at or via the telephone hotline 0180 500 93 42 (14 cents per minute) at one of the German-speaking call center employees.