Hotel performance results for April, released today by Smith Travel Research, illustrated the global nature of the economic downturn, with all four major regions—the Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific and Middle East/Africa—showing double-digit percentage decreases in occupancy and revenue per available room and RevPAR in many markets plummeting by 30 percent or more. Occupancy in the Americas dropped 11.3 percent year-over-year to 56.5 percent, while average daily rate was down 10 percent and RevPAR down 20.1 percent, according to the data. The United States took the hardest hit in terms of average daily rate, which dropped 9.4 percent to $98.37.

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