London hotels saw revenue per available room (revpar) grow by 4% in the week ending 25 May, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.

Revpar rose to £121.89, up from £117.21 during the equivalent week of 2007.

Occupancy dropped by 1.25 percentage points to 85.08% but average room rate grew by 5.53% to £143.27 compared with £135.77 in the corresponding week of 2007.

View the full London figures from The Bench (PDF file) showing the average room rate, occupancy and revpar for the 12 weeks to 25 May >>

View the figures for London hotels for the 12 weeks to 29 May here >> 

View the figures for North-eastern hotels for the year to November 2007 here >>

By Angela Frewin

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