Image by Flickr user Kalense Kid Hooray for messy sheets.

For the first time in more than two years the ratio of occupied hotel rooms rose. It was up some 4% in March 2010 over 2009. And, perhaps even more surprisingly, North Charleston was showing the largest boom.

The Charleston Regional Business Journal has the lowdown on what's up.

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