London hotels saw revenue per available room (revpar) slump by 18.6% in the week ending 16 April, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.

Revpar fell to £70.49, down from £86.55 during the equivalent week last year.

Occupancy slipped by 1.6 percentage points to 75.31% while average room rate dropped by 16.8% to £93.67, down from £112.62 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 16 April.

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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 April 2006

The week ending 9 April, 2006 >>

The week ending 2 April, 2006 >>

London hotel performance in 2006

The week ending 26 March, 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 >>