Hotels in the North-east saw revenue per available room (revpar) rise by 2.79% in the week ending 12 October, 2008, according to figures from hospitality research company STR Global.

Revpar was £61.15 compared with £59.49 in the equivalent week of 2007.

Occupancy increased by 2.73 percentage points to 81.05% while average room rate dropped by 0.66% to £75.45, compared with £75.95 in the corresponding week of 2007.

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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