by Calculated Risk on 5/30/2025 01:10:00 PM
The U.S. hotel industry reported mixed year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 24 May. …
18-24 May 2025 (percentage change from comparable week in 2024):
• Occupancy: 67.5% (-0.4%)
• Average daily rate (ADR): US$164.57 (+1.5%)
• Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$111.02 (+1.1%)
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The following graph shows the seasonal pattern for the hotel occupancy rate using the four-week average.
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The red line is for 2025, blue is the median, and dashed light blue is for 2024. Dashed purple is for 2018, the record year for hotel occupancy.
The 4-week average of the occupancy rate is tracking last year and above the median rate for the period 2000 through 2024 (Blue).
Note: Y-axis doesn’t start at zero to better show the seasonal change.
The 4-week average will mostly move sideways for a couple more weeks until the summer travel season. We will likely see a hit to occupancy during the summer months due to less international tourism.
