THE COST OF staying in an Irish hotel rose by five per cent in 2012, according to Hotels.com Hotel Price Index (HPI).
Hotel rooms now cost €90 a night on average, with prices at their highest since 2008.
Killarney has, on average, Ireland’s most expensive hotel rooms, at €101 per night, while Limerick is the cheapest, with rooms costing an average of €67.
Dublin hotel prices rose by eight per cent in 2012, while prices in Belfast rose by 18 per cent over the same period. Both destinations now have an average price-per-night of €90.
The HPI is based on bookings made through Hotels.com, and is calculated on the prices that were actually paid as opposed to those that were advertised.
The figures come a day after the Irish Hotels Federation said that tourism marketing needed to be ‘reinvigorated’ following a drop in British visitors in 2012.
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