Lodging Dashboard September 2019

# of Visitors to Hilton Head Island: 195,187
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined: 33.9%
Hotel Occupancy: 51.6%
Timeshare Occupancy: 90.6%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined: $230.34
Hotel Average Daily Rate: $162.39

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard  September 2019 compared to September 2018

# of visitors is up from last year by: 1%
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined is down from last year: 1.5%
Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 2.1%
Timeshare Occupancy is up from last year: 6.8%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined is down from last year: 4.95%
Hotel Average Daily Rate is down from last year: 10.35%

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard Year to Date September 2019

# of Visitors to Hilton Head Island: 2,123,786
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined: 59.5%
Hotel Occupancy: 67.1%
Timeshare Occupancy: 90.9%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined: $335.28
Hotel Average Daily Rate: $182.04

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard YTD 2019 compared to YTD 2018

# of visitors to Hilton Head Island is up from last year by: 0.8%
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 1.7%
Hotel Occupancy is down from last year: 5.0%
Timeshare Occupancy is down from last year: 2.3%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined up: 8.0%
Hotel Average Daily Rate is down from last year: 3.8%

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

 

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