Onondaga County hotels continue business rebound in June

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County hotels saw another substantial surge in guests this June compared to a year ago as the travel and leisure industry continued to recover from the pandemic, according to a recent report.

The hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county jumped 84.7 percent to 52.3 percent in June from the year-ago month, according to 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, more than doubled (up 130.2 percent) to $49.66 this June from a year prior.

Average daily rate (or ADR), which represents the average rental rate for a sold room, climbed 24.6 percent to $94.96 in June compared to June 2020.

The strong June 2021 hotel-occupancy report follows the May, April, and March results when occupancy rose 124.4 percent, 152.4 percent, and 40.6 percent, respectively, from a year earlier. These are the first four months in which the year-over-year comparisons were to a month affected negatively 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.