occupancy

During high demand periods, staff working extra hours are paid higher rates for those hours, which doesn’t impact hotel profits as much as you think

Market occupancy climbed to levels not seen since Columbus Day weekend as 15 markets reported weekend occupancy above 90%

We are encouraged by the gains seen in weekday hotel occupancy and believe that it is the beginning of increased business and group travel

Applying an overbooking strategy is common practice and legitimate way to fill a hotel. But if not careful, you hand out too many freebies with no benefit

While U.S. hotel occupancy remains uncomfortably low, we are encouraged by the movement above 50% as well as the gains seen in urban locations

Europe is set to showcase a wide array of music events in 2022, and the large crowds they are likely to draw are music to the ears of local hoteliers

Prediction is that U.S. will achieve full recovery to 2019 levels in 2023 with occupancy and ADR surpassing 2019 levels consistently from summer of 2022

Analysing the occupancy levels by geographic areas we see hotels are at similar levels as January-February 2020, but demand is conservative in January 2022

Until recently upsell software solutions did not check inventory availability. They were simply offer systems collecting requests for later manual approval

This week’s demand, which historically is among the lowest, was 88% of 2019. While slowing, hotels are in a far better position than they were a year ago