Orbitz for Business clients in the first quarter on average paid $162 per night for upper upscale hotel stays and $138 per night for upscale hotel stays.

Those two categories accounted for 62 percent of all hotel bookings by the travel management company's customers. Upper midscale bookings, which accounted for 24 percent of all first quarter hotel stays, averaged $114 per night. Among the five markets with the most hotel stays booked through Orbitz for Business, New York had the highest first-quarter cost per night at $279, followed by San Francisco ($212), Chicago ($166), Houston ($161) and Denver ($133).