Hotels in the Scotland boosted revenue per available room (revpar) by 8.2% during the month of December.
Revpar was £60.18 in December 2007, compared with £55.61 in the corresponding month of 2006, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.
Occupancy grew by 1.3 percentage points to 77.1% and average room rate increased by 6.4% to £78.07, compared with £73.34 in December 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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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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