by Calculated Risk on 12/16/2024 03:01:00 PM

From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 7 December

The U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year performance comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 7 December. ...

1-7 December 2024 (percentage change from comparable week in 2023):

• Occupancy: 59.0% (+0.5%)
• Average daily rate (ADR): US$159.77 (+3.8%)
• Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$94.31 (+4.3%)
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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 of the occupancy rate has peaked for the fall business travel season and will decline seasonally through the holidays.    This is a solid finish for 2024!