HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee—U.S. hotel performance for April 2023 produced mix year-over-year comparisons, according to STR.

April 2023 (percentage change from April 2022):

  • Occupancy: 64.4% (-1.4%)
  • Average daily rate (ADR): US$155.77 (+3.4%)
  • Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$100.39 (+1.9%)

Among the Top 25 Markets, New York recorded the highest occupancy level (82.6%), which was up 5.3% from the market’s 2022 benchmark.  The largest year-over-year gains in the metric were seen in Minneapolis (+8.2% to 56.2%), Chicago (+7.0% to 63.4%), Houston (+7.0% to 63.4%) and Washington, D.C. (+6.3% to 73.7%).

Washington, D.C. posted the highest jump in ADR (+14.2% to US$201.04).

Chicago ranked second in ADR growth (+13.8% to US$155.66) and first in RevPAR growth (+21.7% to US$98.66).

Markets with the lowest occupancy for the month included Detroit and Minneapolis, both seeing occupancy levels at 56.2%.

New Orleans (-9.5% to 66.6%) reported the steepest occupancy decline year over year as well as the largest drop in RevPAR (-21.1% to US$125.90). New Orleans was also one of two markets with a 12.7% decrease in ADR (to US$188.91), Miami  (to US$246.12) was the other.

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