Datamonitor's Hotels & Motels: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the hotels & motels industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global hotels and motels industry grew by 5.4% in 2007 to reach a value of $429.5 billion.

In 2012, the global hotels and motels industry is forecast to have a value of $567.5 billion, an increase of 32.1% since 2007.

The domestic consumer sector of the global hotels and motels industry is the most lucrative, with a 67.5% share of the total value.

Europe is the leading region in the global hotels and motels industry, forming 41.3% of the industry by value.

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Market Definition

The hotels & motels industry value consists of all revenues generated by hotels, motels and other accommodation providers through the provision of accommodation and foodservice. The value does not include any revenues generated through other interests, such as casinos, shops and telecommunication services. The industry is segmented according to the origin of the revenues (domestic consumers, domestic business and international business & consumers). Any currency conversions included within this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.