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Those looking for hotel industry jobs Phoenix (Click here) may soon have better luck, as hotel sales are on the up.

HVS recently released the 2011 Mid-Year Survey of Major and Mid-Market U.S. Hotel Transactions, which found that hotel sales continued to increase during the first half of this year, rising above the number of sales made during the same period last year.

Major-market hotels, or those selling for at least $10 million, fared the best this year. Not only did they see significant increases in sales activity, but they also saw average price per room increase by $45,000 from last year.

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Although the industry lost workers on a monthly basis, the hotel industry jobs Phoenix has to offer were among those to grow over the last year.

During June, Arizona’s unemployment rate climbed from 9.1 percent to 9.3 percent, after falling from 9.3 percent the previous month. That puts the state’s rate just above the national average of 9.2 percent. Phoenix had a rate of 8 percent during May.

The Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale area employed roughly 1,681,800 workers during June, which is down from 1,713,800 workers during May – but a 1.1 percent increase from last year – according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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