This sentiment survey was conducted by Horwath HTL Indonesia, in conjunction with the PHRI (Indonesian Hotel & Restaurant Association) to gauge the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey.
The extent to which the coronavirus has impacted the global hotel industry is now coming into focus based on new data from HotStats, which provides further transparency in terms of the damaging impact of the disease on travel and, by extension, on hotel profitability.
The World Health Organization has pronounced Europe as the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Europe is now reporting daily increases in confirmed coronavirus cases at a rate higher than China during its height in February.
As the COVID-19 situation in France has worsened, the country's daily hotel occupancy plummeted to as low as 3.3% on 17 March, according to preliminary data from STR and In Extenso TCH.Daily occupancy in the country was as high as 65.
Across the Shiji Group product lines we are sharing data on how the COVID-19 crisis is recovering for other markets to use in their analysis and planning. We have looked at the transaction volumes across all our payment integrations to help give some comparable information.
Hotels in the Central/South America region reported mostly positive performance results during February 2020, according to data from STR.
Reflecting the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, hotels in the Asia Pacific region reported a significant decline in occupancy but fairly steady room rates during February 2020, according to data from STR.
Mexico’s hotel industry has yet to see declines as steep as those experienced in the U.S. and Canada, but the effects of COVID-19 on travel still played a role in negative year-over-year results in the three key performance metrics during the week of 8-14 March 2020, according to preliminary data from STR.
The Caribbean hotel industry recorded sharp year-over-year declines in the three key performance metrics during the week of 8-14 March 2020, according to preliminary data from STR.
Reflecting the broadening concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian hotel industry recorded negative year-over-year results in the three key performance metrics during the week of 8-14 March 2020, according to data from STR.
