Modest proposal for the hotel industry: Charge only a nickel a minute and raise your room rate.
Imagine going to a supermarket where none of the prices was posted or checking into a hotel without knowing the room rate.
If the cut off date has passed, the room rate, and allotment of rooms has already been turned back into the hotel, and is no longer available.
Visitor, room rate, and gaming volume trends are improving in Las Vegas, notes Logdson, and both MGM and Wynn should benefit the most among the gaming operators.
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With a low price fixed room rate from around 250 AED per night you can now "Do Dubai" without blowing your travel budget for the rest of the year.
And the average daily hotel room rate -- they drop when the vacancy rate is up -- was down more than 31 percent in the city's March 2008-March 2009 comparison.
By charging hotels 15% of the room rate instead of the 25% or so that other agents traditionally got, Priceline has expanded into the largest online hotel booker in Europe.
The safari, included with the room rate, started as a caravan of Land Rovers carrying about 15 hotel guests into the Great Sand Sea, a vast swath of desert that dominates northeastern Africa.
Most hotels were financed in better times based on rosier scenarios for hotel room-rate growth.
We think the limited reaction to the increase in rate expectations suggests room for a higher Fed funds rate.
But the RBI also cautioned that it had little room for further rate reductions as price pressures were still high.
We anticipate a gradual recovery in Wynn Las Vegas hotel room average daily rate in the year ahead primarily due to economic recovery in the United States.
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One reason that Poland has room even to consider rate hikes: its economy has not been doing badly.
There is room for further interest rate cuts, but Salomon Smith Barney's economist in Singapore, Arup Raha, points out that such cuts have not worked so far.
Although there is room for discussion around the rate of evolution of IT landscapes in an in-memory computing oriented environment, one thing is clear, and that is alignment of current and future IT investment should be aligned with a continued momentum in mind.
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To further emphasize the concept of success rate, assume that the doctor comes into your hospital room and says that your upcoming surgery has a good success rate: a 95% chance of success.
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Less reassuring, however, their exchange-rate regimes leave little room for monetary tightening.
Germany's low inflation rate, its limited room to ease monetary or fiscal policy and the problems in its banking system look horribly like the early symptoms seen in Japan in the mid-1990s before it sank into deflation.
In effect, this is the rate of withdrawal to avoid the ROOM, where you Run Out Of Money!
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In both systems, the would-be employers provided room and board instead of paying the going rate for free laborers.
The people who are staying at the hotel are paying a rate which could get them a room at a much lesser property.
"We do a bit of endurance to get them fitter - marching on the spot, moving round the room in a circle to get the heart rate up a bit, " explained Ms Quaeck.
The year-round repeat rate is 80 percent, but there's room for newcomers if they're flexible on dates.
Zacks reports that eight of the 12 analysts following the company rate it a "hold, " leaving ample room for potential upgrades.
"We are looking at a sharp and sustained downward trend, which should give the Reserve Bank of India the elbow room to go ahead at least with a couple of more rate cuts, " said Abheek Barua, chief economist at HDFC Bank.
The airline might be willing to pay for your room or at least get you a discounted "distressed traveler" rate.
China's interest-rate cut shows that its government, too, has room for manoeuvre.
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"While our unemployment rate still compares favourably with other places there is no room for complacency here and supporting job opportunities remains a top priority for this government, " said Mr Teare.
He says he would slash wasteful public spending, leaving room for interest rates to fall (the Central Bank's benchmark rate is 10.25%).
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