Lifted by Labor Day weekend, Hurricane Ida evacuations and the return of college football, U.S. hotel performance increased slightly from the previous week, according to STR’s latest data for the week through Sept. 4.
Hotel fundamentals for the week of Aug. 29 through Sept. 4, 2021, with parenthetical percentage change from the comparable week in 2019, are:
Occupancy: 61.3 percent (0.7 percent)
Average daily rate (ADR): $132.94 (9.4 percent)
Revenue per available room (RevPAR): $81.54 (10.1 percent)
Comparisons with 2019 were higher due to a lower performing week that year.
Among the Top 25 Markets, Houston recorded the highest occupancy (increasing by 50.5 percent to 76.6 percent) and RevPAR (increasing 77.1 percent to $77.82) compared with 2019.
Oahu Island experienced the steepest decline in occupancy when compared with 2019, down 36 percent to 53.4 percent. Miami reported the largest ADR increase compared
