London hotels saw revenue per available room (revpar) grow by 20.9% in the week ending 29 April, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.

Revpar rose to £125.80, up from £104.06 during the equivalent week of 2006.

Occupancy grew by 1.7 percentage points to 90.1% while average room rate increased by 18.6% to £139.63, up from £117.75 in the corresponding week of 2006.

View the full London figures from The Bench (PDF file) showing the average room rate, occupancy and revpar for the 12 weeks to 29 April >>

View the figures for hotels at London Airports during February 2007 here >>

By Angela Frewin

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