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| Cindy Estis Green |
Los Angeles, CA –– After facing the
lowest occupancy levels since the 1930s and the greatest declines in revenues
and profits ever experienced in the second quarter, the U.S. hotel industry is
poised to begin a multiyear recovery in the third quarter.
According to Kalibri Labs, the number of room nights
occupied in U.S. hotels during the second quarter was 60 percent less than a
year earlier. With such a dramatic decline in demand, the national occupancy
level for the quarter was just 28.3 percent.
It is estimated that 15
percent of U.S. hotels were forced to close for some portion of the three-month
period.
“Fortunately for U.S. hoteliers, indicators of market recovery
began to emerge during the quarter.
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| Jamie Lane |
After bottoming out in April, lodging
demand increased 83 percent in May and June,” said Jamie Lane,
Senior Director of CBRE Hotels Research. “This mini surge in demand was
fueled by leisure travelers looking to escape the bonds of home quarantine for
safe and healthy rural and resort destinations.”
Beyond last quarter’s nadir, CBRE Hotels Research is forecasting
continued improvement in U.S. lodging performance through the remainder of the
year and beyond.
According to the Q2 2020 edition of Hotel
Horizons®, U.S. hotel occupancy should average 39.8 percent,
along with an average daily rate (ADR) of $104.10 for 2020. The net
result is an annual RevPAR level of $41.46, which is 52.5 percent less than the
$87.22 RevPAR posted for 2019.
“U.S. lodging demand is forecast to increase by a compound annual
growth rate of 14.1 percent over the next four years, recovering to 2019 levels
by Q3 2023,” said Mr. Lane.
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| Bram Gallagher |
Recovery patterns vary by chain-scale. Occupied room nights
for hotels in the upper-midscale segment are projected to return to 2019 levels
in 2022, while luxury and upper-upscale demand will lag until 2024.
“Economic, social and operational factors influence demand
recovery,” said Bram
Gallagher, Senior Economist with CBRE Hotels
Research.
“In the past quarter we observed geographically staggered rates
of infection throughout the U.S. Therefore, CBRE forecasts an economic cycle
shallower than initially anticipated, followed by a longer recovery. In
turn, this has extended our forecast of recovery in lodging demand to 2023 from
2022.”
New Data Provider, New Insights
Starting this quarter, CBRE entered into an agreement with Kalibri Labs to
provide historical lodging performance data to underpin its Hotel
Horizons® econometric forecasting model. As of June,
Kalibri Labs collects daily transactional booking data from approximately
34,500 hotels offering more than 3 million guest rooms across the U.S.
With this partnership, CBRE gains insights into how guests book their hotel
rooms, the lead time for making their reservation, the length of time they
stayed in the hotel, and the costs associated with all bookings.
The Kalibri
Labs data set also enables CBRE to more clearly demonstrate the disparities by
market, so critical in a post-COVID world.
“The Kalibri Labs data has been extremely useful in 2020 as we
attempt to understand the real impact of the COVID-19 virus on travel patterns.
"For example, the global distribution system (GDS) and group booking channel
information lets us make assumptions regarding the pace of recovery for markets
and segments that are dependent on corporate and group demand,” Lane said.
Cindy Estis Green, CEO of Kalibri Labs,
said, “Even before COVID, the operating environment had become more complex and
more expensive as the booking process has moved online and the data is now
available to illustrate the segments and channels that comprise demand along with
their costs.
"Key market drivers can be clearly defined and as a result,
CBRE’s important projections for the future can be considerably more refined
and accurate.”
The Q2 2020 edition of Hotel Horizons® for the U.S. lodging
industry and 65 major markets can be purchased by visiting: https://pip.cbrehotels.com.
To
view CBRE Hotels’ latest analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the lodging
industry, please visit: https://www.cbrehotels.com/en/global/covid-19
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