Vintage old hotel bell on the table
Sonoma County hotel developers are proposing hundreds of new hotel rooms. Officials say by the time the summer tourist season comes around, the count could include about 300 rooms at three hotel properties that opened since late summer, plus an additional 325 scheduled to open this spring. Besides those, developers have announced plans for at least nine more new hotels or major expansions planned in Petaluma, Sebastopol, Healdsburg, Rohnert Park, Cotati and Sonoma. County hotel revenues are expected to hit a record 300-million dollars for 2017, which would be more than double the 135-million recorded in 2009.