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Oneida County hotel occupancy jumps 46 percent in June

UTICA , N.Y. — Oneida County’s hotels posted another strong month of business in June as the hospitality industry recovers from the pandemic. The county’s hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) climbed 46 percent to 60.1 percent in June, compared to the same month in 2020. That’s according to a […]

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UTICA , N.Y. — Oneida County’s hotels posted another strong month of business in June as the hospitality industry recovers from the pandemic.

The county’s hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) climbed 46 percent to 60.1 percent in June, compared to the same month in 2020. That’s according to a recent report from STR, a Tennessee–based hotel market data and analytics company.

Revenue per available room (RevPar), a key industry gauge that measures how much money hotels are bringing in per available room, soared 74.2 percent to $67.88 in this year’s sixth month, compared to June 2020.

Average daily rate (or ADR), which represents the average rental rate for a sold room, rose 19.3 percent higher to $113.01 this June.

The strong June 2021 hotel-occupancy report follows the May, April, and March results when occupancy rose 81.4 percent, 99.7 percent, and 73.2 percent, respectively, from a year before. These are the first four months in which the year-over-year comparisons were to a month affected significantly by the COVID crisis. The last year of monthly reports before that showed significant declines in occupancy as the comparisons were to a pre-pandemic month.

Jornal Staff