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<a href="https://str.com/press-release/str-us-hotel-results-week-ending-4-december">STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 4 December</a>
U.S. hotel performance was lower compared to the same week in 2019.
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<li>Occupancy: 54.8% (-8.8%)</li>
<li>Average daily rate (ADR): US$127.92 (-0.5%)</li>
<li>Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$70.08 (-9.2%)</li>
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<img src="/images/blogimages/2021-week-49-occupancy.png" alt="STR Occupancy Data" width="804" height="497">
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<a href="https://str.com/data-insights-blog/us-market-recovery-monitor-week-ending-27-november">STR: Thanksgiving week for the U.S. hotel industry was record-breaking</a>
Weekly occupancy topped 53%, which was 2.3 percentage points higher than the holiday week in 2019 and nearly a point higher than the previous record achieved in 2018. Looking at the 3-day weekend (Thursday to Saturday), occupancy reached 60.2%, 0.9 percentage points greater than in 2018 and 2017 which had been the bar to surpass. Weekend (Friday and Saturday) occupancy (62%) was also at a new high for the week of Thanksgiving.
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This week in Hospitality & Tourism #49 2021