STR: April U.S. Hotel Occupancy Falls
The April U.S occupancy rate fell nearly 2 percent year over year, according to hotel analytics firm STR, while average daily rate increased and revenue per available room declined slightly.
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The April U.S occupancy rate fell nearly 2 percent year over year, according to hotel analytics firm STR, while average daily rate increased and revenue per available room declined slightly.
U.S. occupancy in April declined 1.9 percent year over year to 63.9 percent, the second straight month of such a decline after five consecutive months of increase, according to STR.
The U.S. ADR in April was $161.28, up 1.8 percent year over year, while RevPAR declined 0.1 percent to $103.11.
A few factors complicate straight year-over-year hotel performance comparisons, though. The Easter holiday, around which business travel traditionally slows, was March 31 last year and April 20 in 2025. Additionally, the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse drove hotel demand last year, and STR noted that if the 16 U.S. markets in the path of the eclipse were removed from consideration, April 2025 U.S. RevPAR would have increased year over year.
STR again said its top 25 markets "showed higher occupancy than all other markets as well as a lower year-over-year decline" of 1.3 percent year over year, compared with 2.3 percent in other markets.
New York City registered the highest April occupancy rate among STR's top 25 U.S. cities at 84.8 percent, up 0.5 percent year over year. Detroit logged the lowest April occupancy rate at 57.4 percent (down 2.3 percent year over year), followed by Minneapolis at 60.9 percent (up 2.7 percent), according to STR. Those two cities also posted the lowest occupancy in March.
STR's San Francisco/San Mateo market posted the highest year-over-year increases in all three metrics, with April occupancy up 14 percent to 69.6 percent, ADR up 20.5 percent to $227.44 and RevPAR up 37.4 percent to $158.36.
