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Hotels in the Middle East and Africa have mixed results.

When measured in US dollars, the Middle East and Africa area, according to STR Global, had a mixed result in August 2014.

The area recorded a 14.8% rise in occupancy to 64.3 percent in August, a 7.5 percent decrease in average daily rate to US$141.66, and a 6.3 percent increase in revenue per available room to US$91.09. doha house

"RevPAR increased by 6.3 percent this month, largely due to increased occupancy in all sub-regions," said Elizabeth Winkle, managing director of STR Global. "Egypt posted a good performance for the second month in a row, owing in part to low performance in 2013, when the country witnessed an outbreak of violence as the military moved to clear protest camps, resulting in a time of political instability; the question now is whether this uptick is the start of a turnaround for Egypt."

The following are some of the major markets in the Middle East/Africa area for August 2014 (year-over-year comparisons, all currency in US dollars):

Cairo, Egypt, saw the highest rise in occupancy, jumping 180.5 percent to 58.8 percent, followed by Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (+35.1 percent to 48.3 percent), and Beirut, Lebanon (+23.0 percent to 59.5 percent).
Nairobi, Kenya, saw the only decline in occupancy, down 13.8 percent to 58.1 percent. Nairobi was the city with the biggest drop in RevPAR, dropping 18.2 percent to US$81.00.
The two cities with the highest ADR growth were Cape Town, South Africa (+8.7% to US$100.60) and Cairo, Egypt (+8.6% to US$108.29).
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, experienced the largest drop in ADR, falling 5.6 percent to US$181.83.
Cairo (+204.6 percent to US$63.65); Riyadh (+28.7 percent to US$103.45); Cape Town (+26.8 percent to US$61.46); Manama, Bahrain (+24.1 percent to US$110.52); Beirut (+23.2 percent to US$101.17); and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (+21.2 percent to US$206.23); and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (+21.2 percent to US$206.23).

630 new hotels are planned for the Middle East and Africa.
The Middle East-Africa hotel area had 630 hotels under contract totaling 147,754 rooms, according to the July 2014 STR Global Construction Pipeline Survey.

Projects in the In Construction, Final Planning, and Planning stages are included in the under contract details, but projects in the Unconfirmed stage are not.

With 53,794 rooms under contract, the Upper Upscale segment of the Chain Scale accounts for the largest portion of rooms under contract in the area (36.4 percent). The Upscale segment (18.6 percent with 27,431 rooms), the Luxury segment (18.5 percent with 27,264 rooms), and the Unaffiliated segment each accounted for more than 10.0 percent of rooms Under Contract (13.9 percent with 20,577 rooms).

The Upper Upscale segment accounted for the most rooms under construction (37.3 percent, or 25,337 rooms), followed by the Luxury segment (21.4 percent, or 14,559 rooms) and the Upscale segment (7.3 percent, or 1,459 rooms) (19.8 percent with 13,485 rooms).

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