Dubai Hotels RevPar Drops 34.5%

RevPar for Dubai Hotels in April was slightly more than $200, a huge drop from last year’s peak of about $350 in October. Hotel revenues plummeted 41%. Deloitte concludes that “Dubai is challenged with continued new supply of hotel rooms” and “demand generation efforts continue to play an important role in marketing strategies of hoteliers.” Throughout the Middle East RevPar was down 14.9% year to date in April 2009, while occupancy rate were down 9.6% in April.