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Hotel performance ended strong with March profit surging across most global regions, a sign of stronger revenues and better conversion rates

RevPAR doesn’t pay the rent. Revenue is part of it; profit is the whole of it. For hotel owners, the whole is where the rubber hits the road.

Protecting rate is the goal of any hotel operator. It’s easier said than done in the face of the countless intermediaries looking to take a piece of the pie

GOPPAR is the new measurement everyone is talking about but it is a bit more complicated than REVPAR. You have six pieces to deal with not two

The global hotel industry’s climb back to profitability has not been easy, but it trudged back and ended 2021 almost back to 2019 levels

The drop in hotel revenue, despite a still lower cost base, led to GOPPAR of $11, which was 64% lower than November 2020 and 75% lower than in November 2019

Indications are future hotel bookings, meetings and other hotel related activity will be impacted by the presumed expectation of future travel impediments

Most brands and some management companies have performance clauses in their agreements with owners that indicate a level of REVPAR index to be maintained

The cold hard truth is arriving with the chillier weather: global hotel performance has a ways to go before it’s back to its former self.

Global hotel performance is improving month by month. That’s good news. The more pressing concern is if it will remain – the hotel industry is still fragile