26% hotel salesboost in 2013
HOTELIERS sold 26% more rooms in the first half of UK City of Culture 2013 than in the first half of 2012.
Liverpool did exactly the same when it held the more prestigious European City of Culture title in 2008. In the period January to July 2013, 88,406 rooms were sold, compared to 70,305 in the same period of 2012.