London hotels boost revpar by 12%

London hotels boosted revenue per available room (revpar) by 12% in the week ending 14 May, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.

Revpar climbed to £101.06, up from £90.27 during the equivalent week last year.

Occupancy increased by 3.8 percentage points to 82.8% and average room rate grew by 6.9% to £122.12, up from £114.29 in the corresponding week of 2005.

Click here to see more weekly performance figures for London hotels and monthly figures for the provinces on The Bench.

By Angela Frewin

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