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Oneida County hotels see more than half of rooms filled in September

UTICA, N.Y. — Oneida County hotels posted an occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) of 51.1 percent in September, down 24.5 percent from a year prior, suppressed by the COVID-19 crisis, according to STR, a Tennessee–based hotel market data and analytics company. Still, it was the smallest year-over-year decline in occupancy […]

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Year to date, hotel occupancy in the county is down more than 30 percent to 41.6 percent.

Oneida County’s revenue per available room (RevPar), a key industry gauge that measures how much money hotels are bringing in per available room fell 33.5 percent to $54.05 in September compared to a year ago. That’s a slightly larger percentage decline than August’s nearly 32 percent year-over-year drop. Through the first nine months of the year, RevPar was down 37.3 percent to $43.75.

Average daily rate (or ADR), which represents the average rental rate for a sold room, was $105.72, off 11.9 percent from September 2019. Year to date, ADR is down 9.9 percent.

Jornal Staff