Lower hotel room rates keep occupancy high

28th April 2009, 11:19am

Lower room rates are helping keep London hotel occupancy high, according to the latest European HotStats survey by TRI Hospitality Consulting.

Out of ten major European cities, London occupancy came top with an average of 76% for the first three months of 2009. Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna and Berlin all had higher average room rates than London, but their occupancies were considerably lower, ranging from just 53.1% in Vienna to 68.8% in Paris.

David Bailey, deputy managing director, TRI Hospitality Consulting, explained: "Price promotions and the low value of sterling are stimulating leisure tourism to London which is providing some compensation for the fall in corporate bookings. The overall damage to hotel profits is less pronounced in the English capital than in most other European cities."

In the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period a year earlier, the sample of four and five star London hotels reported daily hotel profit down by 9.5%.

Elsewhere profits fell more sharply: in Paris by 30.7%; in Amsterdam by 36.6%; and in Vienna by 47.5%.

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