South Korea

STR said China Hotel RevPAR the week ended 9/2 was up 30.7% year over year. The previous week’s RevPAR was up against a +19.3% year-over-year comp. Versus the same week in 2019, China hotel RevPAR was down -6.8%. South Korea aims to attract 1.5 million Chinese tourists by the end of the year. Pre-pandemic, nearly five million Chinese visitors […]

Both Thailand and South Korea are aggressively trying to lure back Chinese tourists. The initiatives involve visa exemptions, tax refunds, and rewards for Chinese travelers. The Thai government has introduced visa exemptions for Chinese tourists, with plans for those exemptions to go into effect in October. The move comes as a response to a noticeable drop in Chinese tourist arrivals in the year’s […]

STR reported that China hotel RevPAR was up 22% year over year for the week ending August 5th. When compared with the same week in 2019, RevPAR was up 6.7%. China has lifted a ban on group tours to more than 70 locations. Group tours will resume to dozens of locations in Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, […]

STR reported China Hotel RevPAR data for the week ended June 24. China Hotel RevPAR was up 44% year over year for the week. When compared to that week in 2019, RevPAR was down -5.9%. Macau’s hotel occupancy rate rose by 44.6 percentage points year over year in May to reach 78.9%. The occupancy rate of three-star hotels reached […]

Dow Jones published an article on how foreign investors are taking advantage of the low prices of hospitality properties in Vietnam to acquire hotels and resorts. The article cited the Marriott International deal in April to operate seven hotels and resorts from Vinpearl, including three existing hotels in Nha Trang, Hoi An and Da Nang. In February Singapore’s Lodgis Hospitality […]

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 […]

A white paper on the Corporate Travel Management Market said some 84.5% of companies in China are expecting an increase in domestic travel business budgets for 2023. 74.5% expect an increase in international business travel budgets. Trip.com’s Trip.Biz unit released the report with the study noting that business travelers are increasingly eager for a comfortable, safe and efficient […]

STR reported China hotel RevPAR was up 143.8% year over year for the week ended April 22. Results were up against an easy comparison of down -47.7%. When compared with the same week in 2019, RevPAR was up 1.9%. Radisson Hotel Group announced the latest phase of their expansion strategy in the Philippines with the signing of a deal […]

An HVS Anarock report on the Indian hotel market shows the number of hotel rooms in tier-II and tier-III cities increased to 38% of the total inventory at the end of 2022 from 33% four years ago. The share of hotel rooms in metros went down to 19% during the same period. In 2022, 166 new […]

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 […]

Reuters published an article on how the hoped for, fast out of the gate, revenge travel by the Chinese following the demise of Zero-Covid has not occurred. Instead of a stampede, it has been more like a fast walk. Reuters described Chinese consumers as returning to hotels, restaurants and some shops, but they are choosy about what they buy. […]

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 […]