{"id":404481,"date":"2024-01-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404481"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Hotel-occupancy-at-30-in-November-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Hotel-occupancy-at-30-in-November-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel occupancy at 30% in November 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands reported 30% average occupancy rate among its 11 member-hotels for November 2023, compared to 22% average occupancy among 13 hotels in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 20,681 of 69,444 available room nights sold during November 2023, compared to 15,625 of 72,264 available rooms sold in November 2022. Average room rates were $128.99 compared to $139.53 last November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe month of November was tough,\u201d said acting HANMI chair Dennis Seo. \u201cThe temporary suspension of Asiana Airlines\u2019 flights from Seoul throughout the month was one of factors that froze the recovery of visitor arrivals and tourism. Winter holiday peak season beginning mid-December will help, but it is still very clear that for full recovery, the Marianas needs market diversification, a third major source market to augment Korea and Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hotels included in HANMI\u2019s monthly statistical report are Aqua Resort Club, Aquarius Beach Tower, Century Hotel, GrandVrio Resort Saipan, Crowne Plaza Resort Saipan, Hyatt Regency Saipan, Kanoa Resort Saipan, Kensington Hotel Saipan, Saipan World Resort, Surfrider Resort Hotel, and Pacific Islands Club Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>HANMI was established in 1985 as a professional forum for the hospitality industry of the Marianas. HANMI also makes regular charitable donations to support non-profit organizations and tourism-related government projects. <em><strong><em>(HANMI)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/3132feb36dcadace62c2c58b5f2685bc.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands\u00a0<span>was established in 1985 as a professional forum for the hospitality industry of the Marianas<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands reported 30% average occupancy rate among its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}