Data Insights Blog

Like the rest of the world, STR continues to follow the situation around the COVID-19 outbreak. While the health and wellbeing of so many around the world is the primary focus, we also want to do our best to support our partners and answer as many questions as we can around hotel performance.

Many leisure travelers made the most of the early fall, with several popular drive-to vacation spots experiencing an extended leisure-driven performance in September and October 2020.

On 1 December, we analyzed hotel performance in Latin America amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.

Turkey’s hotel average daily rate (ADR) has grown exponentially in recent months despite the global pandemic depressing rates most everywhere else in the world.

Goa, a market that took some time to initially bounce back, has been building momentum since October with outperforming other leisure markets in the country and demand peaking during the Diwali weekend.

Recovery in the Asia Pacific region demonstrates the importance of domestic travel, as a country’s historic reliance on domestic demand directly impacts its hotel performance today.

After analyzing the pandemic impact on the hotel pipeline in Australia and New Zealand, STR jumps regions to look at the COVID-19 impact on hotel development in the Southern Cone (Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina).

STR recently analyzed the pandemic impact on hotel development in Southern Cone countries. Brazil’s southern states also sit within that cone, but rather than limit the analysis, we looked at the pipeline for all of Brazil.

U.K. Performance Results for October 2020 and the Impact of the Second Lockdown

U.S. Performance Results for October 2020 and forecast for 2020/2021

Room demand has fallen off across most states with all but six seeing lower levels of business since our last update.

On 13 November, we analyzed hotel performance in Asia Pacific amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.

On 1 September, Colombia lifted one of Latin America's longest COVID-19 lockdowns, scrapping most restrictions after more than five months of quarantines. Now the focus is on how much this lockdown will impact hotel performance into the coming months.

On 6 November, we analyzed hotel performance in Europe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.

The two island countries in the Indian Ocean– the Maldives and Sri Lanka—have witnessed contrasting patterns in hotel performance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Popular Southeast Asian destinations have a long way to go in recovery from the global pandemic. For now, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines are showing a similar trend to most of the world with regional markets outperforming the large cities.

The autumn months have not been as kind as the summer for U.S. hotels. With lower performance expected for the coming months, we look back at how leisure travel lifted the U.S. from pandemic lows.

On 30 October, we analyzed hotel performance in the Pacific amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.

On 27 October, we analyzed hotel performance in the U.S amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.

As Latin American countries begin to emerge from COVID-19 isolation, new trends in hotel performance have emerged, suggesting a clear preference for regional destinations. Costa Rica has been no exception.