Hotels in Scotland increased revenue per available room (revpar) by 3.9% during the month of January.

Revpar was £39.16 in January 2008, compared with £37.68 in the corresponding month of 2007, according to figures from hospitality research company STR Global.

Occupancy remained unchanged at 44.4%, so all the growth stemmed from the 3.9% rise in average room rate to £88.21, compared with £84.86 in January 2008.

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STR Global was created by the merger of hospitality research companies Smith Travel Research (STR), Deloitte’s HotelBenchmark and The Bench.

It offers hotel research to clients that include hotel operators, developers, financiers and analysts, providing regular and custom reports covering more than 35,000 hotels in 1,300 global markets.

As well as global hotel performance data, STR Global tracks a variety of Profitability, Pipeline and Census data covering all aspects of the industry.

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Source: STR Global