Pan Pacific Hotels Group

STR reported China hotel RevPAR was up 99% year over year for the week ended May 13. When compared to the same week in 2019, RevPAR was down -7%. STR said Jakarta, Indonesia’s preliminary April 2023 data showed its highest monthly ADR since August 2019. Occupancy was down -1.7% to 45% but ADR was up 32.9% to IDR1,015,991.89 […]

Nepal hotels are complaining they are not seeing the deluge of reservations they would expect at this time of year. The VP of Hotel Association Nepal said a quarter of the hotel rooms are vacant. The Association has 2,000 hotels as members. Only 25% of their 10,000 room nights have been sold. They claim nearly 20% of […]

The DJIA rose 383 points, Nasdaq was up 45, the S&P 500 rose 35 points and the 10-year treasury yield was up .09 to 3.48%. Lodging stocks were mostly higher but the biggest movers were to the downside. The newly minted penny stocks, VCSA and SOND, both traded down to new lows, dropping another -4% and -7% respectively. SLNA hit a new low, […]

CNBC produced a segment on how hotel rates in Asia Pacific are surging. Squawk Box Asia late last week interviewed Alan Watts, Hilton’s Asia Pacific president who told them rates are at an all time high, clearly following the same pattern rates did in the United States after they opened up the country. Watts said the rates are being […]

STR reported China hotel RevPAR for the week ended January 28 was up 177.8% year over year. When compared with the same week in 2019, China hotel RevPAR was up 66.6%. Helping the year over year and 2019 comparison results was the timing of Chinese New Year – January 22, 2023 versus February 1, 2021 and February 5, […]

UNWTO’s forward-looking scenarios for 2023 suggests global international tourist arrivals could reach 80%-95% of pre-pandemic levels this year, depending on the extent of the economic slowdown, the ongoing recovery of travel in Asia and the Pacific and the evolution of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. UNWTO anticipates a strong year for the sector even in the […]

Zero-Covid in China is definitely on life support as, despite a continuing steady stream of new cases, Beijing’s International Airport and Daxing Airport have dropped the requirement for a negative Covid-19 test result to enter their terminals. While some will say President Xi has blinked after the recent protests, financial markets around the world had the […]

Pan Pacific Hotels Group announced it will double its serviced suites portfolio in 2023 with openings in key gateway cities such as Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Nairobi. Its developments are under parent company UOL Group Limited. The Group’s latest wave of expansion will increase its global development portfolio by 50%, adding more than 4,000 keys by 2023. Parkroyal Suites Bangkoklaunched on […]

STR said China hotel RevPAR fell -35.8% for the week ending October 22 on a year over year basis. When compared to the same week in 2019, RevPAR was down -51.8%. Absolute occupancy for the week was 46.8%. That compares with 65.6% for the comparable week in 2021. It is doubtful the RevPAR comps in China will look […]

Ennismore, the lifestyle hospitality company led by Accor, in partnership with Siamese Asset, announced the signing of TRIBE Bangkok Sukhumvit 39. The hotel will be the first TRIBE hotel in Thailand when it opens in the fourth quarter of this year. The hotel will be centrally positioned in one of Bangkok’s most vibrant and fashionable lifestyle neighborhoods. The […]

STR reported China hotel RevPAR was up 48.2% year over year against very easy comps. When compared with this week in 2019, RevPAR was down -20.4%. Absolute occupancy in China last week was 59.1% versus 43.1% in the same week last year. It never is good for the hotel space when a city of 21 million […]

STR reported China hotel RevPAR for the week ended August 20 was up 89.7% year over year, up against an easy -43.4%. When going against the week in 2019, China hotel RevPAR was down -21.5%. Absolute occupancy for the week was 64.6%, compared with only 38.1% in the year ago week. Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism said that […]