Extended-stay hotels post big RevPAR declines as recovery emerges

Aggressive room rate cutting in the second half of 2009 contributed to a 15.4 percent RevPAR decline for extended-stay hotels compared to 2008. After several quarters of falling demand, rate reductions helped lift demand into positive territory in the third quarter 2009 and boosted it to more than an 8-percent increase in the fourth quarter.

 Demand growth coupled with a more than 50-percent decline in the development pipeline are signals that other measures of operating performance will be moving into recovery mode in the not too distant future.
 
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