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U.S. hotel commentary - November 2024

The U.S. presidential election, a year-over-year Thanksgiving calendar shift, ongoing hurricane recovery efforts, and an extra weekend all factored into the equation as U.S. revenue per available room (RevPAR) increased 2.5% in November. Like in October, occupancy growth was the main driver as the gain in average daily rate (ADR) was under 1%. Even with the stronger occupancy, the measure remained 2 percentage points (ppts) in arrears versus November 2019.

U.S. hotel conversion activity remains muted

U.S. hotel conversion activity, which involves changing an existing hotel from its independent status, or affiliating it with a new brand; continues to trend below the long-term average of the 20-year period ending 2019. We are benchmarking to this period given that it excludes the disruption in hotel development brought about by the pandemic.