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Note: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US, there will be no Daily Lodging Report – Asia Pacific on Thursday, November 23, 2023. Trip.com said global search results for China inbound travel improved by nearly 40% in 3Q23 compared to the previous quarter. They expect the demand for travel to China to rise in […]

Wyndham Grand Bangsar Kuala Lumpur announced its grand opening. The former Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar was converted to Wyndham Grand, marking the first Wyndham Grand hotel in Malaysia. The hotel, located in the heart of Bangsar, includes 513 rooms, 200 of them twin rooms, with the standout features being the hotel’s event spaces. Those include […]

Sentosa Island in Singapore has reported almost two-thirds of its pre-pandemic visitor volume and should recover to pre-pandemic numbers in one to two years. This is what the CEO of Sentosa Development Corporation said during the Trip.com Global Partner Summit that was held in Sentosa. The 1,236-acre island resort off the southern coast of Singapore currently holds 14 hotels and the Resorts World Sentosa IR. […]

STR reported China hotel data for the week ended September 23rd. Hotel RevPAR was up 46.7% year over year, up against a 5.1% comp in 2022. Compared with 2019, RevPAR for the week in China was up 14%. Investment specialists at the Australia-New Zealand edition of the Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific said market conditions are stressing hotel […]

The Philippines Dept. of Tourism said foreign arrivals reached 3.3 million in the first eight months of 2023, approaching the government’s goal of 4.8 million arrivals for the full year. South Korea remains the top inbound tourist source, with over 940,000 visitor arrivals recorded in the eight months. The US was second with 17.31% of arrivals, or 632,687. […]

In the Q2 2023 Asia Pacific, excluding China, Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics, analysts state that the region is at an all-time project high of 1,936 with 401,766 rooms in the total pipeline at the quarter’s close. The Asia Pacific region, excluding China, had 172 hotel projects/26,748 rooms open in the first half of the year, […]

Bloomberg reported on the boom in hotel investment in Japan. We recently reported on the appetite Blackstone has for Japanese real estate, particularly hotels. The Bloomberg article expanded on that, saying foreign investors, including Goldman Sachs Group, KKR & Co, and Blackstone, have spent a combined $2 billion on hotel deals in Japan so far this year, the most compared […]

Malaysia reopened its borders nearly a year ago and finally its hotel industry is getting back to pre-pandemic occupancy levels. The Malaysian Association of Hotels said the country recovered well in 2022 with the occupancy rate going from 36% to 54%. In 2019, the rate was around 60%, according to Tourism Malaysia data. The average room rate […]

Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed his cabinet to relax certain visa requirements in a bid to attract more foreign tourists to the country. Bloomberg said Chinh wants to offer visa waivers to more countries, expand their e-Visa program and allow foreigners to stay for longer. Vietnam is targeting 8 million visitor arrivals in 2023. They attracted 18 […]

Hilton’s Asia Pacific president, Alan Watts, told Nikkei Asia that they expect hotel guest numbers in China to return to their pre-pandemic levels by year-end. By the fourth quarter, they are expecting to see regular 80% occupancies. Of the 7,000 hotels Hilton runs worldwide, Asia Pacific accounts for about 9% with 672 properties representing 12 brands. […]

Savills Vietnam issued a report saying despite improvements in 2022, occupancy and room rates in Ho Chi Minh City have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels. The occupancy rate of 45% last year was 20 percentage points higher year on year but was still 23 percentage points less than the figure in 2019. The average room rate reached 1.6 […]

Hotels in Thailand still want the government to accelerate the launch of the new phase of the domestic stimulus scheme even with an influx of Chinese tourists expected to show up. The Thai Hotels Association said the “We Travel Together” hotel subsidy scheme provides integral support for hotels and domestic tourists in terms of spending but […]