London hotels saw revenue per available room (revpar) drop by 2.24% in the week ending 24 August, according to figures from hospitality research company STR Global.
Revpar fell to £101.48, up from £103.73 during the equivalent week of 2007.
Occupancy decreased by 4.48 percentage points to 81.41% while average room rate increased by 3.22% to £124.66 compared with £120.78 in the corresponding week of 2007.
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STR Global was created by the merger of hospitality research companies Smith Travel Research (STR), Deloitte’s HotelBenchmark and The Bench.
It offers hotel research to clients that include hotel operators, developers, financiers and analysts, providing regular and custom reports covering more than 35,000 hotels in 1,300 global markets.
As well as global hotel performance data, STR Global tracks a variety of Profitability, Pipeline and Census data covering all aspects of the industry.
London hotel performance in August 2008
The week ending 17 August, 2008 >>
The week ending 10 August, 2008 >>
The week ending 3 August, 2008 >>
London hotel performance in 2008
The week ending 27 July, 2008 >>
The week ending 29 June, 2008 >>
The week ending 25 May 2008 >>
The week ending 27 April 2008 >>
The week ending 30 March 2008 >>
The week ending 24 February 2008 >>
The week ending 27 January 2008 >>
London hotel performance in previous years
The week ending 30 December 2007 >>
The week ending 31 December 2006 >>
The week ending 11 December 2005 >>
Source: STR Global