Global fall in hotel prices. - Good news for travellers - the average price of a hotel room around the world fell by 12% last year. According to the latest Hotels.com quarterly study (the most popular hotel reservations website in the world), the fall in prices has speeded up over recent months. According to statistics based on the Hotel Price Index (HPI) sample of 68,000 hotels in 12,500 different locations, prices fell in the fourth quarter of 2008 to their lowest level since 2004, the...