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There were some noticeable jumps in hotel occupancy during Copa América, but typical day-of-week trends contributed to higher levels in some cases. That and more in this piece on the tournament’s impact on Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia hotel performance.

Most of South America’s hotel industry continues to stagnate, and Argentina stands out as a country unable to generate recovery momentum to this point.

Hotel development in the Central and South America region is lagging the rest of the world, but a handful of markets are projected for significant supply growth.

Brazil´s resorts have seen considerable upward movement with leisure demand growing robustly in the country.

While COVID-19 vaccination programs continue to inoculate travelers around the world, lockdowns in many regions have yet to fully lift, leading to continued challenges. Bogotá, where a lockdown until June along with protests in Colombia have led to a significant impact on hotel performance.

April produced South America’s first year-over-year increase in ADR since 2019. But absolute levels remain well behind the pre-pandemic comparables. One key market (Lima) is even further behind.

Regional markets in Latin America continue to lead recovery as performance in key cities has lagged. In this article, we analyzed that trend for several key markets to assess where occupancy recovery stood at the end of 2020.

Since Brazil started to emerge from COVID-19 isolation, domestic leisure demand has returned at a modest level while international and group demand are unlikely to return in the short-term restrictions remain in place.

Latin America’s beach destinations, always popular on the international and domestic tourist trails, have been key to hotel performance recovery even with restrictions on international travel.

On 9 February, we analyzed hotel performance in Brazil amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.

On 2 February, we analyzed hotel performance in Latin America amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.

On 9 December, we analyzed hotel performance in Brazil amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.

Bogota’s occupancy levels improved in the months that followed the lifting of Colombia’s lockdown. However, a look ahead courtesy of #ForwardSTAR suggests that momentum is stopping.

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

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.

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.

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.

Argentina had some of Latin America’s lowest occupancy levels (below the 10% mark). How has the country’s longer lockdown affected hotel performance recovery? Find out more here.

On 29 September, we analyzed hotel performance in Brazil amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our summary with five key points here.