Data by SiteMinder, the global hotel industry’s leading guest acquisition platform, today reveals that global hotel bookings in May were more than double April’s YoY volume. The SiteMinder World Hotel Index shows bookings rose 137% over the four weeks from 29 April to 27 May, from 10.70% to 25.33% of 2019 levels.
Other key findings from the SiteMinder World Hotel Index include:
- New Zealand was the top high riser over the last week of May, with bookings that have gone from strength-to-strength since its national lockdown began to lift earlier in the month. They now sit at over half (53.77%) of last year’s booking levels and will likely accelerate further if plans proceed to allow Australian visitors from 1 July.
- Iceland’s hotel bookings have doubled from 13.76% of 2019 levels to 27.43% over the last two weeks, and overtaken the global average. The rise follows new plans to reopen the country’s borders to tourists by 15 June and cements Iceland’s place beside Germany, Norway and the Netherlands as one of Europe’s few markets outperforming the global average.
- Portugal could be the first southern European country to re-emerge from the pandemic. Beachgoers took their first dip this past week, after the government announced a phased lifting of lockdown restrictions, and a jump in hotel bookings mirrors their excitement. In two weeks, they’ve surged from 8.01% of last year’s levels to 22.27%.
To see how the hotel booking momentum has changed in other countries—including Spain, which has declared quarantine restrictions will lift this summer and urged international holidaymakers to return—access the live SiteMinder World Hotel Index or sign up for weekly snapshots at HomeForHotels.
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