By comparing the average price of a double room in 50 of the world's major cities with the price in the first quarter of 2010, the booking portal shows a strong upward trend across the globe.
Topping the list of hotel inflation: Rio de Janeiro (+68.1 %), Mumbai (+35.8 %), Sydney (+26.9 %), Cape Town (+25.5 %), Buenos Aires (+20.1 %), Athens (+20 %), Zurich (+17.6 %) and Moscow (+15.4 %). Same phenomenon in major cities "global"Growth was particularly strong in New York (+15 %), London (+12.8 %) and Paris (+4.9 %).
Finally, in the ranking of the most expensive cities, Sydney comes out on top, with the average price of a double room estimated by HRS at e176.9 in the first quarter of 2011. It is followed by New York (149.6), Rio (149.2), Moscow (148.85), Zurich (140.9) and Singapore (132.4).
