Global hotel reservation service released its latest North American Hospitality Review figures yesterday, showing that hotel demand continues to recover, albeit slowly.

Looking at hotel bookings from Sept. 1, 2011 to Aug. 31, 2012, committed occupancy is up 2 percent year-over-year, while average daily rate is up 4.8 percent, and revenue per available room is up a strong 6.1 percent.

Business travel continues to the drive the increasing numbers, according to TravelClick:

“As the late summer leisure travel season comes to a close, it is clear that the business travel segment will resume its role as the primary demand driver for U.S. h

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Nolita’s first boutique hotel combines the comfort of home with modern luxury in the heart of downtown New York.

New York’s boho-chic neighborhood of Nolita (short for North of Little Italy) is about to get a whole lot hipper with the opening of The Nolitan Hotel on August 1st. Located at the corner of Kenmare and Elizabeth Streets, the Nolitan is the first boutique hotel to grace the hood and will offer guests not only luxuriously designed and appointed rooms with unique amenities by Nolita’s own Red Flower brand, but also fantastic organic food coupled with incredibly personal service. Did w

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Ice hotels, underwater luxury and hotels built into tiny Dutch harbour cranes not float you boat? Between us, Travbuddies have certainly tracked down an extremely impressive selection of the wacky, inspiring and downright bizarre, but Berlin’s Propeller Island hotel might just top them all for sheer ridiculousness.

Described as an inhabitable work of art, the purpose of the hotel is a dual one: to offer incredibly odd accommodation, and to provide a space for audio and visual artist Lars Stroschen to display his art in the most public of arenas.

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