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SYDNEY, July 1 Asia Pulse - Hotel accommodation in London costs 100 times the price of a Big Mac, but it only costs 45 times a local burger to stay in a Sydney hotel, a survey has found.
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels' inaugural Hotel Affordability Index compares the average daily rate (ADR) of a city's hotel market with the local price of a Big Mac in local currency terms, as published by The Economist magazine.
The results showed London was by far the most expensive city in which domestic travellers could stay, at a price more than 100 times the local cost of a hamburger.
Asia Pacific markets were found to offer comparably cheaper hotel rooms than their overseas counterparts, with eighth-placed Hong Kong topping the region for affordability.
Sydney came in 18th with a rating of 43.6 times the price of one of the local hamburgers, making it more than twice as ...
Source: HighBeam Research, AUSTRALIAN HOTELS TROUNCE LONDON ON AFFORDABILITY: SURVEY.