Hotels in the North-west saw revenue per available room (revpar) decline by -7.2% during the month of September.
Revpar was £59.24 in September 2007, compared with £63.80 in the corresponding month of 2006, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.
Occupancy dropped by 4.5 percentage points to 79.1% while average room rate slipped by 1.9% to £74.92, compared with £76.37 in September 2006.
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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.
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