Durham, New Hampshire – RevPAR for the Berlin hotel market is forecast to increase 2% in 2013 whereas Frankfurt and Munich are expected to edge down 1.3% and 1.4% respectively over the same time period according to the e-forecasting.com baseline forecast released in their May Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich Monthly Hotel Forecast reports using historical data from HotStats, the hospitality intelligence provider.

"With our May Monthly Hotel Forecasts we were able to include these three top German destinations in our initial geographic coverage of key UK markets," commented Maria Sogard, CEO of e-forecasting.com. "We chose Germany as the next targeted area of coverage as it serves as a bellwether of international tourist demand in Europe."

May Monthly Forecast Reports were released this morning for the following markets in the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, the provinces and total UK. German coverage began this month with Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.

The Monthly Hotel Forecasts (MHF) are the result of a predictive intelligence collaboration between e-forecasting.com and HotStats to provide in real time monthly hotel insights with a competitive advantage for UK, European and MENA top destinations. The HotStats hotel database, which is immense and industry's most comprehensive, coupled with e-forecasting.com's over 10 years expertise in forecasting hotel markets around the world with the industry's best accuracy record, brings to the market an unparalleled decision-making tool for hoteliers and executives in hotel-related businesses.

In addition to reporting on forecasts of the hotel metrics of occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, the Monthly Hotel Forecasts also provide in depth analysis of the economic environment and how it relates to the forecast for each hotel market. This additional analysis includes country-wide hotel industry pulse (HIP) and hotel industry leading indicator (HIL) monthly readings, probabilities of an upcoming recession in the hotel industry, the country's monthly GDP, a foreign travel leading indicator specific to each market, labor market conditions, inflation, exchange and interest rates, energy prices and special events. Each Monthly Hotel Forecast includes predictions for 24 months, 8 quarters and three years out for each of the key hotel performance metrics. It is available on an annual subscription basis.

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About HotStats

HotStats, a leading firm in the hotels, tourism and leisure industries, provides a unique profit and loss benchmarking service to hoteliers from the UK, European and MENA markets, with more than 100 performance metric comparisons covering 70 areas of hotel revenue, cost, profit and statistics. For more information visit