U.S. hotels posted positive performance for the week ended Sept. 29, according to STR data.
Year over year, revenue per available room increased 9.1% to $98.15, and average daily rate rose 7.3% to finish the week at $137.31. Occupancy ticked up 1.7%, to 71.5%.
Thanks to Dreamforce 2018, San Francisco/San Mateo, Calif., posted the steepest RevPAR increase of the top 25 U.S. markets at 60.5% to $334.78 and saw the largest increase in ADR, adding 52.0% to $369.01.
Detroit posted the largest increase in occupancy, with the metric rising 14.3%, to 78.1%.
Houston saw RevPAR decline 16.7% to $82.84, the largest decrease. The market also logged the steepest fall in occupancy, sliding 22.2%, to 67.4%.
St. Louis, Mo.-Ill., recorded the only ADR decrease of the week, losing 3.0% to $110.92.