HotelBenchmark™ adds 19 new markets to monthly survey

Deloitte is today delighted to announce the addition of 19 new markets to its Monthly HotelBenchmark™ Survey.

The new markets added to the survey include Bonn (Germany), Thuringen (German state), Hainan Island (China), Langkawi (Malaysia), Port Elizabeth (South Africa) and 14 markets across the UK listed below.

The HotelBenchmark™ Survey by Deloitte is the world’s largest hotel performance database tracking the occupancy, average room rate and revenue per available (revPAR) performance of over 7,200 chain and independently operated hotels to report on over 450 markets.

Lorna Clarke, Executive Director of HotelBenchmark™ commented: “At HotelBenchmark™ we are dedicated to working with clients to meet their needs for hotel performance data and I am delighted that we can now report on even more markets around the world. But it doesn’t stop there; we will be rolling out a number of new markets for Daily HotelBenchmark™ shortly and more monthly markets are planned for release in 2008. So watch this space.”

Performance of new markets year-to-July 2007

Source: HotelBenchmark™ Survey by Deloitte

Note: All analysis in US$.

The HotelBenchmark™ Survey by Deloitte contains the largest independent source of hotel performance data in the world and tracks the performance of over 7,200 hotels and 1.3 million rooms every month. Monthly surveys are produced on the following areas:

• Four regional rate and occupancy surveys covering Asia-Pacific, Europe, Central & South America and the Middle East & Africa.
• Twelve country/sub region rate and occupancy surveys for Australia, Benelux, China, Germany, India, Italy, New Zealand, Nordic Countries, Qatar, Southern Africa, Spain and UK.
• Two city rate and occupancy surveys for London and Paris.
• Monthly profitability surveys on Germany and London.
• On an annual basis we produce profitability surveys tracking performance across all regions of the world.
• Daily HotelBenchmark™ tracks rate and occupancy everyday for a number of markets across the Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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