U.S. hotels recorded mostly positive performance for the week ended Sept. 14, according to STR data.
Year over year, average daily rate and revenue per available room rose 0.8% each to $132.59 and $92.26, respectively. Occupancy stayed flat at 69.6%.
Performance for the comparable period in 2018 was lower because of Hurricane Florence, STR noted.
Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Va., saw the largest increase in ADR of the top 25 U.S. markets, increasing 15.9% to $99.69. The market also logged the highest RevPAR uptick at 63.0% to $67.12 and the largest increase in occupancy, with the metric rising 40.6%, to 67.3%.
Chicago logged the biggest ADR decrease, losing 9.7% to $179.85, and saw RevPAR decrease 12.0% to $145.75, the largest decrease.
Atlanta reported the sharpest decline in occupancy, dropping 8.3%, to 69.3%.
