London hotels increased revenue per available room (revpar) by 3.4% in the week ending 12 March, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.

Revpar grew to £104.30, up from £100.85 during the equivalent week last year. A small dip in occupancy was offset by a higher average room rate.

Occupancy fell by 2.7 percentage points to 78.9% while average room rate rose by 6.9% to £132.14, up from £123.62 in the corresponding week of 2005.

Click here for the full London figures from The Bench (PDF file) showing the average room rate, occupancy and revpar for the 12 weeks to 12 March.

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The Bench - which is partnered with US firm Smith Travel Research - provides online benchmarking data for in excess of 34,000 hotels in more than 400 markets.

The online service allows users to track their performance in average room rate, occupancy and revpar  in a variety of formats and to measure their daily performance against their competitors.

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London hotel performance in March 2006

The week ending 5 March, 2006 >>

London hotel performance in 2006

The week ending 26 February, 2006 >>

The week ending 29 January, 2006 >>



London hotel performance in previous years

The week ending 11 December, 2005 >>