Article: Hotels looking to next year for rebound.(hotels struggle in Fairfield County)

Hotel operators in Fairfield County are singing that old refrain: "It's been down so long it looks like up to me."

But up-from-the-bottom hotels may not come until 2005 or 2006, predicts Steve Paganelli, executive director of the Coastal Fairfield County Convention & Visitor Bureau in Norwalk.

"The business continues to be sporadic," he adds. "The Fairfield County hotel market is about 60 percent dependent on the business traveler, and that's a sector of the travel industry that is undergoing a very slow recovery."

The industry was battered by 9/11, the war on terrorism, the plunge in the stock market and cutbacks in corporate travel during ...

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