Hotels on Asia’s major resort islands saw strong double-digit growth in July 2011. According to the latest data from STR Global, provided exclusively to Travel Daily, hotels in China’s southern island province of Hainan experienced a 64.9% year-on-year jump in revenue per available room (revPAR) last month, driven by surging average daily rates (ADR). Hainan’s ADR increased 55.1% year-on-year to US$167, although the island’s occupancy remained subdued, averaging just 45.0%.
Phuket, which is experiencing a rebound from a poor 2010, saw revPAR rise 47.4%, driven by a 30.1% jump in occupancy, which averaged a healthy 71.0%. ADR rose 13.3% to US$95. Bali meanwhile, experienced 18.9% revPAR growth, with an 18.2% rise in ADR off-setting a 3.3% decline in occupancy. Finally the hotels of Peninsular Malaysia, including the resort islands of Langkawi and Penang, experienced a 14.2% rise in revPAR, with ADR increasing 11.6% to US$133.
Year-to-date all four resort areas achieved double-digit revPAR gains, fuelled by rising ADR in Bali, Hainan and Peninsular Malaysia, and a mix of occupancy and rates gains in Phuket.
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