Americas hotel performance update

3 Marzo 2025
January kicked off 2025 with most countries in the Americas region (excluding the U.S.) reporting YoY RevPAR growth.
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North America
Central and South America
Industry Updates

New Orleans Super Bowl: Hotel Performance Forecast

3 Febbraio 2025
New Orleans is set to host Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, and the market’s hotels are heading toward full occupancy around the big game on 9 February 2025.
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North America
Forecast
Forward Data

U.S. hotel commentary - December 2024

3 Febbraio 2025
U.S. hotel December RevPAR was up 4.4%, which was the country’s largest YoY gain since March 2023.
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North America
Industry Updates

Analysis: 2025 California wildfire impact on hotel performance

17 Gennaio 2025
The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles appear to have had limited impact on hotel performance as of the week ending 11 January 2025.
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North America
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - November 2024

6 Gennaio 2025
The U.S. presidential election, a year-over-year Thanksgiving calendar shift, ongoing hurricane recovery efforts, and an extra weekend all factored into the equation as U.S. RevPAR increased 2.5% in November.
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North America
Industry Updates

The end of an Era(s Tour): Taylor Swift’s final impact on hotel performance

19 Dicembre 2024
Taylor Swift said, “so long, London,” and made her way back to North America for her final leg of the Eras Tour.
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North America
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel conversion activity remains muted

16 Dicembre 2024
U.S. hotel conversion activity continues to trend below the long-term average of the 20-year period ending 2019.
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North America
Industry Updates

Hotel F&B driving labor cost growth in 2024

3 Dicembre 2024
In the U.S., it costs about $9 more to staff a hotel room than in 2023. While rooms labor makes up the highest portion of labor expenses, the increase in F&B labor costs is driving most of that growth.
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North America
Industry Updates
Forecast

Upcoming holiday season impact on U.S. hotel performance

21 Novembre 2024
Two significant changes will impact travel in the U.S. this holiday season.
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North America
Forecast
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - September 2024

30 Ottobre 2024
U.S. RevPAR decreased 1.3% year over year in September following a robust August which followed a lackluster July.
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North America
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - August 2024

4 Ottobre 2024
U.S. hotel RevPAR rose 3.9% year over year in August, following a lackluster July.
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North America
Industry Updates

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour heightened Europe performance levels amid popular tourist season

11 Settembre 2024
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour took Europe by storm this summer, with 47 concerts across 17 cities over a 15-week period from May to August.
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Europe
Industry Updates
North America

Maui remains top hotel market despite slow recovery after fires

3 Settembre 2024
A year after a series of tragic fires in Maui, topline hotel performance remains below 2023 levels due to slower recovery, but the island maintains higher levels compared to other U.S. markets.
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North America
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - July 2024

29 Agosto 2024
After three months of year-over-year growth, U.S. RevPAR was flat (0.0%) compared with last July.
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North America
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - April 2024

11 Giugno 2024
U.S. RevPAR rose 2% year over year after declining in March (-2%).
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North America
Industry Updates

RNC and DNC: How political conventions impact host market hotel performance

31 Maggio 2024
This summer quadrennial tradition consistently results in an oversized performance boost to host markets’ hotel performance on a scale that might be fairly compared to a “Super Bowl” of politics.
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North America
Forward Data

U.S. hotel commentary - March 2024

1 Maggio 2024
Revenue per available room (RevPAR) fell 2.2% year over year (YoY) in March, marking the first such decline since February 2021.
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North America
Industry Updates

2024 solar eclipse drove hotel performance records across markets in path of totality

18 Aprile 2024
The total solar eclipse on Monday, 8 April may have darkened cities across Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, but you may want to grab your eclipse glasses once again in preparation for how much the event brightened performance.
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North America
Events
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - February 2024

27 Marzo 2024
February produced modest RevPAR growth, reflecting the continued return to low single-digit gains.
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North America
Industry Updates

Early Easter pushes spring break peak forward a week in 2024

11 Marzo 2024
Spring break season is officially here, and tracking school calendar data becomes critical during this time in order to predict travel demand across the U.S.
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North America
Industry Updates

Regional update: 2023 data and the year ahead

8 Marzo 2024
In this global update, we take a journey through each of the four world regions – focusing on performance, pipeline, and factors that influenced the data in 2023, while also looking ahead to what’s in store for the rest of 2024.
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Global
Historical Data
Industry Updates
North America
Asia Pacific
Middle East and Africa
Europe

U.S. hotel commentary - January 2024

1 Marzo 2024
RevPAR showed modest YoY growth in January, reflecting a return to pre-COVID patterns of low single-digit gains.
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North America
Industry Updates

Las Vegas hotels broke continental U.S. record for Saturday and Sunday ADR

22 Febbraio 2024
Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas produced unprecedented hotel performance levels—not just for the Super Bowl but for any weekend in history.
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North America
Events
Industry Updates

2024 Total Solar Eclipse: How will the hotel performance impact stack up to 2017?

15 Febbraio 2024
In early-April 2024, a Total Solar Eclipse will once again pass over cities across North America and drive an influx of spectators in need of overnight accommodations. That means a lift in hotel performance is once again on the horizon, but there are key differences from the Total Eclipse in 2017.
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North America
Industry Updates
Forward Data

U.S. hotel commentary - December/Full-year 2023

30 Gennaio 2024
The year started with easy comparables due to the Omicron impact in Q1 2022, but performance growth softened as 2023 progressed due to calendar shifts, increased outbound travel, and other factors revealing the beginning of a return to normal industry patterns.
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North America
Industry Updates

New York City and Washington, D.C. among top performing U.S. markets in 2023

29 Gennaio 2024
In 2023, many key U.S. hotel markets caught up on recovery that was held back due to a lack of business travel. Markets like New York City and Washington, D.C., were atop the 2023 performance list, while growth leaders from previous years were more grounded due to diminished leisure travel.
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Historical Data
Industry Updates
North America
Hotels

U.S. hotel commentary - November 2023

29 Dicembre 2023
RevPAR grew as strong ADR growth offset an occupancy decline.
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North America
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - October 2023

5 Dicembre 2023
Group demand in Luxury and Upper Upscale class hotels was the highest for any single month since October 2018.
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North America
Recovery
Industry Updates
Profit and Loss

U.S. hotel commentary - September 2023

30 Ottobre 2023
U.S. hotel RevPAR rose 2.9% in September, which was the strongest year-over-year growth of the quarter, even as occupancy continued to decline modestly.
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North America
Hotels
Industry Updates

Hotel performance standouts during Beyonce’s world tour

24 Ottobre 2023
Beyoncé claimed the throne with the highest-grossing tour by a solo female artist. How did that translate to hotel performance? Let's just say some of the metrics were "heated" in some stops, but the impact was more “unique” by market. Learn which stops on the RENAISSANCE World Tour stood out.
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Global
Events
Historical Data
Industry Updates
North America
Hotels

Fall Break and Homecoming Scheduling Provides Hotel Demand Opportunities Across the U.S.

26 Settembre 2023
School is now fully in session in the U.S., and upcoming fall schedules are the first opportunity this season for hoteliers to capitalize on an influx of traveling students and their families. More specifically, the hotel industry can plan on peak fall break demand during the first half of October.
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Industry Updates
North America

Taylor Swift impact grows to $208M in U.S. hotel room revenue

30 Agosto 2023
Best believe U.S. hotels were still “bejeweled” when Swift came to town, as concert dates after our previous update (June through early August) increased the tour impact to $208 million in additional U.S. hotel room revenue.
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North America
Events
Industry Updates
Forward Data
Global

U.S. hotel commentary – June 2023

25 Luglio 2023
U.S. hotel demand declined slightly year over year, but modest supply growth helped mitigate the impact on occupancy.
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North America
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - May 2023

3 Luglio 2023
Weekends were the culprit behind May’s lower demand growth, as weekend levels declined year over year for the second month in a row.
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North America
Industry Updates
Profit and Loss
Recovery

U.S. hotel performance cooled a bit in the leadup to summer

26 Giugno 2023
Sandwiched in between the slower business period around Memorial Day and the early portion of summer, U.S. hotel performance cooled a bit during the four weeks ending 17 June. Read more in our latest “bubble chart” update.
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North America
Industry Updates
Hotels

U.S. hotel performance enchanted by Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour”

9 Giugno 2023
We “said remember this moment” – because whether looking at actualized hotel data from recent weeks, or booking data for later this summer, Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” is making an impact across the country.
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North America
Events
Historical Data
Hotels
Industry Updates

U.S. hotel commentary - April 2023

5 Giugno 2023
Demand was down year over year for the first time since early 2021, but historical patterns point to the demand decline being more of a reset.
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North America
Industry Updates
Hotels
Recovery

NYC leading U.S. markets, Boston, D.C. and Alaska join occupancy leaderboard

25 Maggio 2023
U.S. hotel performance produced an incremental gain during the four weeks ending 13 May, a period that falls in between the heavy, summer travel season and earlier year peaks.
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North America
Industry Updates
Historical Data

U.S. hotel commentary - March 2023

2 Maggio 2023
U.S. hotel rate growth continues to drive RevPAR growth, and while ADR is still posting very strong YoY growth rates, moderating inflation and normalized demand growth are leading to deceleration in the growth rate.
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North America
Industry Updates
Profit and Loss
Recovery

Seasonal momentum shifting in U.S. hotel performance

21 Aprile 2023
The top hotel markets in this STR U.S. bubble chart update show a seasonal momentum shift from traditional winter/spring break hotspots to a broader range of destinations with increasingly travel-friendly climates.
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North America
Industry Updates
Historical Data