{"id":21068,"date":"2016-11-02T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expedia.com\/stories\/?p=21068"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:57:23","slug":"checking-2016-hotel-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expedia.com\/stories\/checking-2016-hotel-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking in on 2016 hotel trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s some big\u00a0news from the hotel industry: It\u2019s a good time (of human history) to book hotel rooms, especially when you book them over the Internet.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the gist of a study\u00a0we released today about hotel trends from the first half of 2016\u2014an exhaustive survey of all sorts of statistics to determine when to book, where to book, and the impact of the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n

The study is titled, “Checking in: Hotels trends and what they say about the first half of 2016,” and you can find a\u00a0link to the\u00a0PDF right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Specifically, at least according to proprietary data from Expedia, hotel room nights stayed rose 33 percent for the 12 months ending June 2016. That\u2019s an increase of one-third! Our data also indicates that travelers are booking a wider variety of hotels than ever before\u2014another development that speaks to the current glory days of hotel booking. Put simply, more and more people are booking more and more hotels online. Which, of course, is good for both us and you.<\/p>\n

Of course there were a handful of other headlines in our findings. Among them:<\/p>\n