Lodging Dashboard August 2018

# of Visitors to Hilton Head Island:  262,964
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined: 67.0%
Hotel Occupancy: 76.0%
Timeshare Occupancy: 98.5%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined: $311.00
Hotel Average Daily Rate: $209.11

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard  August 2018 compared to Augusy 2017

# of visitors is down from last year by: 0.05%
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined is up from last year: 8.4%
Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 4.8%
Timeshare Occupancy is up from last year: 0.5%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined is up from last year: 8.6%
Hotel Average Daily Rate is up from last year: 3.8%

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard Year to Date August 2018

# of Visitors to Hilton Head Island: 1,903,752
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined: 57.8%
Hotel Occupancy: 67.6%
Timeshare Occupancy: 93.2%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined: $280.00
Hotel Average Daily Rate: $197.20

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard YTD 2018 compared to YTD 2017

# of visitors to Hilton Head Island is down from last year by: 0.02%
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy is down from last year: 3.6%
Hotel Occupancy is down from last year: 5.1%
Timeshare Occupancy is up from last year: 0.6%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined up: 8.6%
Hotel Average Daily Rate is up from last year: 5.3%

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

 

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