The top 10 cities in the U.S. for luxury hotel room market share

- Jul 20, 2012 8:47 am

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Florida and California demonstrate that being (geographically) tall and thin does equal luxury and collectively take up seven of the top ten slots.

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#Top10 list shows US cities w/ highest share of luxury hotel rooms; Miami, NYC & Tucson(!) make list. http://t.co/rMJJdtHo via @USATODAY

I asked hotel expert Robert Mandelbaum, research director of PKF Hospitality Research, to pull the numbers on luxury hotel rooms in the Top 50 markets – a list that excludes casino-reliant Las Vegas, by the way.

Today, we’ll look at the Top 10 markets where luxury comprises the highest percentage of rooms. The calculations were made based on data from Smith Travel Research.