Calculated Risk: Hotels: Occupancy Rate increased Year-over-year

at Calculated Risk on 12/30/2024 06:19:00 PM

The US hotel industry reported positive year-over-year performance comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 21 December. …

Growth was elevated due to the Hannukah calendar shift as well as the compressed business travel period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. As expected, actual levels were significantly lower than the previous week because of the seasonal slowdown.

15-21 December 2024 (percentage change from comparable week in 2023):

• Occupancy: 48.9% (+11.4%)
• Average daily rate (ADR): US$135.79 (+2.7%)
• Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$66.36 (+14.3%)
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The following graph shows the seasonal pattern for the hotel occupancy rate using the four-week average.

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The red line is for 2024, blue is the median, and dashed light blue is for 2023. Dashed purple is for 2018, the record year for hotel occupancy.

The 4-week average of the occupancy rate is above both last year and the median rate for the period 2000 through 2023 (Blue) – and will likely finish mostly unchanged year-over-year.

Note: Y-axis doesn’t start at zero to better show the seasonal change.

The 4-week average will decline seasonally through the holidays. This is a solid finish for 2024!