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The NFL championship football game is being hosted in Indianapolis for the first time in its 46-year history, and tens of thousands of fans will travel to the city to watch the action unfold firsthand.
Data from STR , parent company of HotelNewsNow.com, shows Indianapolis hotels reported 26% occupancy on 6 February 2011, the night of the game last year when it was held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Average daily rate came in at US$62.14 and revenue per available room was US$16.14.
Tim Hart, executive VP of business intelligence for TravelClick, said the Super Bowl this year is most likely affecting a wider geographic area in Indianapolis than it has other host cities because of Indianapolis smaller size compared to past Super Bowl cities.
There s no availability for quite a perimeter around the city s towns. If they are open, many of them are selling at very high rates that are clearly associated with the Super Bowl event, Hart said.
Ninety percent of the rooms within cancun hotel reviews a 30-mile radius went to the NFL four years ago when the initial bid to host Super Bowl XLVI was contracted. Room rates for that inventory also were determined when the contract was signed.
When the bid goes in for a community to put themselves up for the Super Bowl, a large part of that bid is all of the rooms they ve congregated. We committed to our rates four years ago, said Jeff Good, president of Good Hospitality Services, which manages cancun hotel reviews 13 properties in Indiana.
A search completed cancun hotel reviews Tuesday cancun hotel reviews for a room on Orbitz returned results for 12 properties with availability out of 244 properties. The closest property from downtown cancun hotel reviews Indianapolis, five miles away, was an America s Best Inn, charging cancun hotel reviews US$399 for the least expensive room, a 625.5% increase from its usual rate of US$55.
While many hoteliers increased their rates for Super Bowl weekend early on, some blocked out availability at the beginning and opened cancun hotel reviews it again closer to the event to charge even higher rates, Hart said.
Good expects it will be business as usual at Indianapolis select-service hotels, but the full-service properties should expect some challenges. cancun hotel reviews It s the food-and-beverage component of it and dealing with high crowds, he said.
Understanding how to deal with the large crowds of people is the main concern for Phil Ray, GM of the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, which is the National Football Conference team s headquarters in the city.
Starr Peterson, director of sales and marketing at the Canterbury Hotel, said the hotel brought on additional cancun hotel reviews staff about a month ago to begin training for the Super Bowl weekend crowd. The hours at the hotel s restaurants and bars also have been extended for the weekend.
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