据Hotels.com的数据，由于衰退打击了旅游业，去年全球酒店客房价格下滑了14%。
World-wide hotel rates fell 14% last year as the recession dented the travel industry, said Hotels.com.
该公司推出的酒店价格指数(Hotel Price Index)显示，2009年欧洲酒店客房价格较上年下滑13%，美国、亚洲和拉美客房价格分别下滑14%、16%和21%。酒店价格指数跟踪 Hotels.com全球客户为每间客房支付的实际价格。
The company's Hotel Price Index, which tracks the real prices paid per room by Hotels.com customers around the world, revealed travellers spent 13% less on hotel rooms in Europe during 2009 than the previous year, 14% less in the U.S., 16% less in Asia and 21% less in Latin America.
2009年全球酒店客房平均价格低于2004年该指数刚推出时的水平。该指数样本包括1.6万多个地方的9.4万家酒店。
The average price of a hotel room across the world was cheaper in 2009 that it was in 2004, when the index began. The sample comprises 94,000 properties in more than 16,000 locations.
不过，接近2009年底时，平均价格的下滑速度开始放缓。美国大型旅游公司Expedia Inc.旗下品牌Hotels.com说，2009年第四季度，酒店客房的平均价格较上年同期下滑了7%，而第一季度的同比降幅为16%。
However, towards the end of 2009, the rate at which the average price fell started to slow down. The average price of a hotel room fell by 7% year-on-year in the last quarter of 2009, compared with 16% in the first quarter, said Hotels.com, an Expedia Inc. brand.
Hotels.com总裁罗奇(David Roche)说，尽管2009年第四季度欧洲和美国出现了酒店价格复苏的一些可能的初步迹象，酒店促销和便宜的价格看起来却还会持续一段时间。
'Despite some possible first signs of hotel prices recovering in Europe and the U.S. in the last quarter of 2009, the promotions and great value look set to continue for some time yet,' said David Roche, president of Hotels.com.
Hotels.com还说，经济低迷再加上美国入境游客数量的减少，打压了美国的价格。
A drop in the number of overseas tourists to the U.S. on top of a feeble economy has hurt prices in the country, it added.