Hotel Occupancy Rates Up for 2014, Maybe

According to this story in the El Paso Times, local hotel occupancy was up last year.

El Paso’s hotel occupancy rate rose 3.4 percent and hotel revenues increased 12 percent last year, according to data released Friday by Destination El Paso, the city’s convention and tourism bureau.

The local hotel occupancy rate was 67.6 percent, compared to 64.2 percent in 2013, according to data from STR, a Nashville company that tracks hotel industry data worldwide, Destination El Paso reported.

Hotel revenues grew from $153.8 million in 2013 to a record $172.3 million in 2014, an increase of $18.5 million, or up 12 percent, the data show.

Isn’t it curious that the city’s convention and tourism bureau had to rely on data from a Nashville company? Aren’t those numbers reported as part of the Hotel Occupancy Tax? Do the hotels self-report to STR, or is there some other methodology?

Curiouser and curiouser.

4 comments

    1. I guess you missed the news that El Paso fell from second to fifty-third over four years on Milken’s Best Performing Cities List, of that home foreclosures are up 83 percent from last year. But you’re willing to claim that an increase in hotel occupancy is due to the ballpark. Hmm.

  1. Looks like the Brutus link is trending that HOT tax is up 13 million extra dollars for 2014….must be all those ball park fans and players coming to town.

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