Hotels: Occupancy Rate Increased 4.4% Year-over-year (Easter Timing boosted YoY Occupancy)
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 29 March On the positive side of the Easter calendar shift, the U.S. hotel industry reported increases across the key performance metrics, according to CoStar’s latest data through 29 March. ... 23-29 March 2025 (percentage change from comparable week in 2024): • Occupancy: 65.1% (+4.4%) • Average daily rate (ADR): US$161.65 (+2.5%) • Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$105.19 (+7.0%) emphasis addedThe following graph shows the seasonal pattern for the hotel occupancy rate using the four-week average.Click on graph for larger image. The red line is for 2025, blue is the median, and dashed light blue is for 2024. Dashed purple is for 2018, the record year for hotel occupancy. The 4-week average of the occupancy rate is tracking last year and is lower than the median rate for the period 2000 through 2024 (Blue).Note: Y-axis doesn't start at zero to better show the seasonal change.The 4-week average will mostly move sideways until the summer travel season. We might see a hit to occupancy during the summer months due to less international tourism.
On the positive side of the Easter calendar shift, the U.S. hotel industry reported increases across the key performance metrics, according to CoStar’s latest data through 29 March. ...The following graph shows the seasonal pattern for the hotel occupancy rate using the four-week average.
23-29 March 2025 (percentage change from comparable week in 2024):
• Occupancy: 65.1% (+4.4%)
• Average daily rate (ADR): US$161.65 (+2.5%)
• Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$105.19 (+7.0%)
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The red line is for 2025, blue is the median, and dashed light blue is for 2024. Dashed purple is for 2018, the record year for hotel occupancy.