Lodging Dashboard December 2014

# of Visitors to Hilton Head Island: 150,566
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined: 18.7%
Hotel Occupancy: 34.2%
Timeshare Occupancy: 91.2%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined: $114.00
Hotel Average Daily Rate: $96.20

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard  December 2013 compared to December 2014

# of visitors is up from last year by: 7.7%
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined is up from last year: 10.4%
Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 6%
Timeshare Occupancy is up from last year: 3.1%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined is down from last year: 2.3%
Hotel Average Daily Rate is down from last year: 0.10%

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard Year to Date December 2014

# of Visitors to Hilton Head Island: 2,644,594
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined: 50.2%
Hotel Occupancy: 59%
Timeshare Occupancy: 93.3%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined: $207.00
Hotel Average Daily Rate: $142.50

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard YTD 2014 compared to YTD 2013

# of visitors to Hilton Head Island is up from last year by: 2.1%
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 2.5%
Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 3.4%
Timeshare Occupancy is up from last year: .5%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined up: 7.2%
Hotel Average Daily Rate is up from last year: 7.8%

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

 

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