The affordability of hotels for locals
MOSCOW has the most expensive hotels of 75 popular city destinations surveyed by Hogg Robinson Group, a British corporate-travel firm. At an average of $434 a night paid by visiting business travellers for a room in 2009, the price is eye-wateringly high for companies but is higher still for locals. A Muscovite who earns the local average net wage for 14 professions (such as a teacher or a bank worker) would have to work for 65 hours to pay for a room. Residents of Delhi however, must toil for over twice that time, putting in 160 hours to afford a hotel at $263 a night. By contrast, high wages in Copenhagen and Geneva mean that locals of those cities need only work for a couple of days to pay for a break.
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