First course
Hotels work in Seattle
Seattle draws visitors for cruise departures from the waterfront piers, for conventions at the downtown convention centre, for stadium events at Lumen Field and T Mobile Park, and for the summer run from June through September. Demand splits between downtown and South Lake Union properties serving business and convention travellers, airport area hotels in SeaTac and Tukwila serving early flights, and smaller independent and boutique properties in neighbourhoods like Ballard, Capitol Hill and Fremont. Chain flags and management companies hold much of the downtown inventory, while independent owners and small groups hold the neighbourhood and suburban stock. Search demand follows the cruise calendar, the convention calendar and the stadium schedule, and it clusters around dates, neighbourhoods and trip types rather than around the word hotel alone.
