London hotels saw revenue per available room (revpar) drop by 6.3% in the week ending 15 July, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.

Revpar fell to £125.05, down from £133.44 during the equivalent week of 2006.

Occupancy dropped by 6.8 percentage points to 86.1% while average room rate grew by just 1.2% to £145.29, compared with £143.62 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 15 July >>

View the figures for South-western hotels for the year to April 2007 here >>

By Angela Frewin

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