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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
12 November 2008
Amid forecasts of a difficult 2009 operating environment, it’s good to stop and find a few rays of light in the storm clouds. STR identified the top 10 U.S. markets based on RevPAR, then added preliminary October 2008 performance for each market.
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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
10 December 2008
The near-term operating environment for the more than 2,000 airport hotels in the U.S. will be challenging, with decreases in demand, occupancy and RevPAR expected to continue.
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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
20 April 2009
Five U.S. cities—Phoenix, New York, Detroit, Atlanta and Miami—have experienced particularly sharp RevPAR declines based on the latest three-month numbers ending February 2009.
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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
17 June 2009
While exterior-corridor properties continue to thrive in select locations, interior-corridor hotel supply continues to gain share.
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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
09 December 2009
The region’s long-term demand trend has moved in relative sync with its biggest feeder markets—the U.S. and Europe. Based on the 12-month moving average in October, Caribbean demand began to show signs of improvement.
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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
30 December 2009
As hotel operators and analysts begin to question the industry outlook in the year ahead, business-mix performance could hold some answers.
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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
01 March 2010
Located on the banks of the Ohio River, the performance of Cincinnati’s hotels is starting to show some positive signs—which sets it up well as the economic recovery begins.
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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
05 October 2009
August year-to-date occupancy was down 12.7 percent, and ADR fell 11.2 percent. This combination drove RevPAR down 22.4 percent.
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By Patrick Mayock, Editor-in-Chief
14 August 2009
STR’s Bobby Bowers compared the top 25 markets with the rest of the U.S. to provide attendees of the Hotel Data Conference a fresh perspective on the industry’s overall performance.
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By Bobby Bowers, Senior VP, Operations, STR
10 March 2009
The interstate hotel location type, comprised primarily of hotels from the economy and midscale-without-F&B chain scales, has been affected by the downturn. But like past down cycles, the location type is maintaining, if not driving, rate.
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