Lodging Dashboard December 2016

# of Visitors to Hilton Head Island:  177,653
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined: 23.6%
Hotel Occupancy: 44.7%
Timeshare Occupancy: 92.4%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined: $126.00
Hotel Average Daily Rate: $110.36

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard  December 2015 compared to December 2016

# of visitors is up from last year by: 13.6%
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined is up from last year: 17.5%
Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 16.6%
Timeshare Occupancy is up from last year: 0.1%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined is up from last year: 3.2%
Hotel Average Daily Rate is up from last year: 9.7%

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard Year to Date December 2016

# of Visitors to Hilton Head Island: 2,677,951
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy Combined: 52.1%
Hotel Occupancy: 63.6%
Timeshare Occupancy: --%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined: $227.00
Hotel Average Daily Rate: $152.54

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

Lodging Dashboard YTD 2016 compared to YTD 2015

# of visitors to Hilton Head Island is up from last year by: 1.0%
Home/Villa & Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 2.1%
Hotel Occupancy is up from last year: 4.2%
Timeshare Occupancy is up from last year: --%
Home/Villa & Hotel Average Daily Rate Combined up: 2.7%
Hotel Average Daily Rate is up from last year: 5.1%

Sources: Smith Travel Research and Vacation Travel Research Program

 

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