Hotel room occupancy in September this year was 79.65 percent\u2014the highest for the month since 1997, according to the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n
September room occupancy was an 8-percent increase from the 71.77-percent occupancy recorded last month. The association cautioned, however, that October figures would drop significantly as hotels have felt the effects of Japan Airlines\u2019 flight suspension.<\/p>\n
The average daily room rate for September was $81.51, the highest for the month since 2000.<\/p>\n
According to HANMI statistics, average room occupancy in September of 1997 was 77.92 percent. The figure went down to 52.78 percent in the same month in 1998, a year when overall occupancy from January to December averaged at 58.05 percent due to the effects of the Asian currency crisis.<\/p>\n
Room occupancy was slowly rebounding by 2000, but suffered a setback following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist bombings in the U.S. mainland which caused occupancy to plunge to 47.88 percent that month, and further down to an all-time low of 32.98 percent in October.<\/p>\n
HANMI\u2019s figures were based on monthly surveys of its 14 member hotels, which altogether have a total of over 2,400 rooms.<\/p>\n
HANMI is a non-profit organization of hotels and tourism-related agencies and businesses. It was formed in 1985 to provide a forum for the sharing of ideas and common issues for the CNMI\u2019s hotel industry. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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