Article: Santa Fe, N.M., Hoteliers Hope for Increased Business as Summer Continues.

By Bob Quick, The Santa Fe New Mexican Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 26--The high price of gasoline, a weak national economy and lingering memories of last year's disastrous forest fires are hanging over this year's tourist season like a monsoon cloud, but Santa Fe hotel managers and others are hopeful this season will be a good one despite those problems.

So far, it's been a mixed picture. June has been soft to fair at many properties. But Santa Fe's largest hotel, Eldorado, had what general manager Randy Randall the "worst June ever."

Overall occupancy rates among Santa Fe's hotels and motels for April were up slightly (less ...

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