In physics, molecular diffusion describes the movement of liquid particles at certain temperatures. The colder it gets, the less particles move. It turns out U.S. January revenue per available room also was such a particle, according to Jan Freitag, SVP of lodging insights for HNN’s parent company STR. Baby it’s (or was) cold outside.

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This increase is the LOWEST
January RevPAR growth since
2010 (-7.7%). The long-run
January average is +3.2%.
Jan. RevPAR
UP 2.4%
ONE
RevPAR has been
71MONTHS
STR does NOT see that trend
changing anytime soon.
149,500rooms under construction
In physics, molecular diffusion describes the movement of liquid particles at certain
temperatures. The colder it gets, the less particles move. It turns out U.S. January
revenue per available room also was such a particle, according to Jan Freitag, SVP of
lodging insights for HNN’s parent company STR. Baby it’s (or was) cold outside.
1.5%Rooms available
increased
On the surface that number looks
like the same as December, but when
looking at the second digit you see
that December SUPPLY INCREASE
was +1.48% and January was +1.53%.
This is an INCREASE OF 17%.
Rooms in the final planning stage
are up 25% to 188,000 rooms.
© 2016 STR, Inc. All Rights Reserved. illustrations: jon edwards
Source: STR, Inc.
Just like in December, RevPAR
growth in the TOP 25 MARKETS
(+2.2%) was actually less than in
all other markets (+2.6%).