London hotels boost revpar by more than 20%

London hotels boosted revenue per available room (revpar) by 20.5% in the week ending 26 November, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.

Revpar climbed to £111.57, up from £92.59 during the equivalent week last year.

Occupancy grew by 5.7 percentage points to 84.7% while average room rate increased by 12.4% to £131.65, up from £117.07 in the corresponding week of 2005.

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