11.   Are they in cahoots with the hotel industry?

12.   Benson had run into an increasingly common money-making strategy in the hotel industry.

13.   Blackstone acquired the brands during the recession when the hotel industry was near the bottom of a slump, and chains could be acquired cheaply.

14.   Both the increases are exceptionally strong for the hotel industry, and come on top of a strong summer last year.

15.   A financial writer with wide interests, Hammer wrote about topics ranging from the hotel industry to car exhaust devices to Wall Street.

16.   A. The hotel industry is way behind other travel industries, most notably the airlines, in cutting travel agency fees.

17.   After less than a year in the job, Stephen Bollenbach has resigned as chief financial officer of Walt Disney Co. to return to the hotel industry.

18.   Also up sharply in the fourth quarter was Hotel Reservations Network of Dallas, the operator of an Internet travel agency specializing in the hotel industry.

19.   Bruce Baltin, who specializes in the hotel industry for PKF Consulting in Los Angeles, was equally surprised by the appointment, and equally laudatory.

20.   But occupancy rates, the temperature of the hotel industry in New York City, plunged like Internet stocks following the disaster.