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STR reported China hotel data for the week ended May 27. China hotel RevPAR was up 83.3% year over year while up 4.3% versus the same week in 2019. Singapore hotels’ average room rate and RevPAR were up in April with ARR up 3.3% to S$273.18 from March. Year over year, ARR was up 32.8%. Overall room […]

STR said China hotel RevPAR was up 93.8% year over year the week ended May 20. It was up against an easy comp of down -38.2%. When compared with the same week in 2019, China hotel RevPAR was down -2.4%. Minor International Pcl said they expect a record year for its hospitality business on pent-up travel demand […]

The Singapore Tourism Board said 1.13 million tourist arrivals were recorded in April, the second consecutive month of more than a million arrivals. This was the highest monthly number of visitor arrivals since the start of the pandemic. January 2020 was the last big month of arrivals (1.7 million) and that is within reach. Indonesia was the […]

STR reported China hotel RevPAR for the week ended April 29 was up 138.2% year over year. It was up against an easy -48.4 comp. When compared with the same week in 2019, hotel RevPAR was up 1.1%. The Association of Macao Tourist Agents said the first Labor Day holiday after lifting all Covid curbs had […]

Banyan Tree Group, closing out the 2022 fiscal year with 63 properties across its global portfolio of 10 hospitality brands, expects to get to 113 hotels by the end of 2025. They added eight newly built or converted hotels in 2022 and the Singapore-based group is on track to double its footprint by 2025, expanding its presence in 23 […]

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 […]

STR said China Hotel RevPAR, the week ending March 4, was up 67.2% year over year. When compared to the week in 2019, hotel RevPAR in China was down -4%. The Bangkok Post reported that 112,876 room nights were reserved out of 560,000 available within six hours of the latest phase of the hotel subsidy program going live. […]

STR said the reopening of Japan’s international border several months ago, along with the National Travel Support campaign, have helped boost Tokyo’s hotel average daily rate beyond pre-pandemic comparables for two straight months. The rise in room rates was preceded by improving occupancy which came in at 74.8% in December 2022 and dropped slightly to 69% in […]

Singapore has urged Chinese authorities to restore flight capacity between the two nations to pre-Covid levels as soon as possible in a bid to improve business and tourism ties. The Straits Times said Singapore’s Foreign Minister made the request to his Chinese counterpart during a meeting this week. The number of weekly flights between the two is […]

The World Travel & Tourism Council reported positive signs of recovery for the Asian travel and tourism sector with five major metropolises seeing a significant economic rebound. The highest-performing Asian cities in 2022 were Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo. The report, in partnership with Oxford Economics, showed those five cities had a recovering direct contribution to GDP by […]

Singapore signaled an end to the Covid-19 era restrictions, removing nearly all remaining mask rules as well as all border restrictions for arrivals who are not fully vaccinated. The measures went into effect this past Monday. Masks are no longer required on public transport and indoor healthcare and residential care settings. The Ministry of Health […]

STR gave their 2022 summary, saying among the global regions, Asia was the only one to see a decline in revenue per available room when compared with 2019. While Australia & Oceania saw RevPAR rise 4.3% as a 20.8% rise in room rates offset a -13.6% decline in occupancy, versus 2019, Asia RevPAR was down -31.2%. Asia region […]