Moments in time from the World Hotel Index

It’s been five months since COVID-19 became a reality for most of us. In that time, we’ve seen hotel bookings drop to below 9% YoY globally, and then show an encouraging and sustained recovery to surpass 54% YoY in July. At a global level, booking levels have plateaued since, but not in every part of […]

Three weeks ago, we introduced the world to the four stages of hotel booking recovery that we had been witnessing since the outbreak of the pandemic in March. Among those stages was Deceleration or Plateau, which had occurred only within individual countries up until that point. However, we knew the time would come when we […]

This past March was a month that many of us are unlikely to ever forget. It seems like yesterday I was watching in disbelief as hotel bookings plummeted from around 50% YoY to below 10% YoY. Four months on, hoteliers in many pockets of the world can find some comfort that booking volumes have surpassed […]