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</html><description>by Roberta Murphy We are seeing luxury scaled down on many fronts, and luxury hotels and timeshare resorts are taking it on the chin as well. For the first five months of this year, according the the Wall Street Journal, U.S. hotel occupancy has declined 53 percent. This is the lowest drop in occupancy since 1987, when Smith Travel Research began tracking these numbers. While both luxury and budget hotels...</description><thumbnail_url>http://luxuryhomedigest.com/files/2009/06/aviara-four-seasons-300x235.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>
