After three years flat, prices travellers paid for overnight accommodation rose 2 per cent globally in 2017, according to the latest Hotel Price Index™ (HPI™) from Hotels.com™. In a year where cryptocurrencies flooded the market, hashtags took over the red carpet and political debate turned well, political, the needle has also moved for travellers, with a two-point rise in the global Index to 116, the closet it’s been to the 2007 peak of 118. Every regional Index, except for North America, grew in 2017, signaling strong growth in the travel industry. Prior to this, there had been seven years of continued growth in the North American Index since its low point of 96 in 2009.