U.S. hotel commentary - July 2024
After three months of year-over-year growth, U.S. RevPAR was flat (0.0%) compared with last July. The result was due to falling occupancy (-0.5%), which was not offset by a small gain (+0.5%) in ADR. The Top 25 Markets saw some growth (+0.5%), but the increase did not rise to the level of Q2 and was not enough to erase decreases in the remaining markets (-0.4%). Chain scale results remained bifurcated with the upper tier (Luxury, Upper Upscale and Upscale) posting gains of 1.6% and the remaining chains scales falling by the same amount in aggregate.