Smoke-Free Hotels On the Rise

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  11.20.08 | 12:50 PM ET

AAA now counts more than 8,000 smoke-free travel lodgings in the United States, USA Today reports. Most amazing: The number has more than tripled since 2005.

Tags: Health, Hotels, Shrinking Planet

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


3 Comments for Smoke-Free Hotels On the Rise

Jack from eyeflare travel tips 11.21.08 | 6:14 AM ET

This is great, I’ve always wondered why so many hotels allow smoking when so few travelers do anymore. So, does this mean I can avoid stinky hotel rooms more easily?

Grizzly Bear Mom 11.24.08 | 11:45 AM ET

Ditto.  I’m asthmatic and frequently get bronchitis from contact with alergins including smoke.  As it is, I frequently wear a veil across my face to avoid disel and smoking fumes in train stations.  (Warning the next part is tounge in cheeck!) How soon can we prohibit smokers from marrying non smokers, reproducting, or adopting children, make them embroider giant Ss on their clothing and yell out “Fumous, Fumous!” so we can easily avoid them.

Judy 12.18.08 | 8:44 PM ET

Anyone know of a good smoke free all inclusive resort in the Carribean or Mexico. I also scuba dive, so need a dive boat with no smoking policy. I have a severe allergy, and this limits my travel….and I love to travel!

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