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Hilton announced the opening of The Mermoon Resort Hainan Tufu Bay, Tapestry Collection by Hilton. This marks the entry of Hilton’s lifestyle brand into the vacation destination of Hainan Island, China’s southernmost point. The resort is owned by China Energy Construction Group Co. Ltd and is managed by Hilton. The hotel includes 116 guest rooms and suites all […]

Trip.com data shows the global travel bookings for the summer (June 1 – August 31) already has surpassed the 2019 level with intra-regional travel leading the way. Overall bookings on the Trip.com platform for the summer increased by 170% when compared to the same period in 2022, up by 356% year over year in Asia. European markets are […]

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 […]

Foreign visitors to Indonesia in February were down -4.62% from January, recording 701,930 tourist arrivals, the lowest since December. Officials said this was a seasonal effect as February is the low season for tourism. Of course, the expectations for everyone in the Asia Pacific region was the reopening of China would cause a regional surge but […]

STR reported China hotel data for the week ended March 18. China hotel RevPAR rose 134% on a year-over-year basis, up against an easy -46% comp result in 2022. When compared with the same week in 2019, RevPAR was down -14%. Sabre said after sifting through its extensive shopping and booking data to examine the impact of the reopening […]

The Hong Kong Tourism Board announced Hong Kong saw a provisional visitor arrival of 1.462 million in February, three times what arrived in January. This is the first time there were more than 1 million arrivals in a month since the Covid-19 pandemic was declared and it happened in the shortest month of the year. While a very […]

STR reported China hotel RevPAR the week ended October 29 was down -17.1% year over year. When up against the similar week in 2019, hotel RevPAR fell -44.8%. China hotel absolute occupancy for the week was 48.8% compared with 55.2% during the same week in 2021. The South China Morning Post published an article on medical tourism being ramped up […]

The average occupancy rate of Macau’s hotels and guesthouses fell by -6.3 percentage points year over year in June to a very weak 39.1%. The worst thing about that is the result will be lower than that for July. The Macau Statistics and Census Service said the occupancy rate for 5 star hotels fell by -12.2 […]