The opening of two new hotels is, in the opinion of experts, one of the factors that has influenced the current occupancy rate in the country’s hotel industry.
One of the strategies that the hotels are using to increase the occupancy rates of their facilities is the improvement and expansion of existing infrastructure.
Representatives of hotel chains consider it essential to increase the efforts being made jointly with the government to increase the number of tourists visiting the country.
In an article in Laprensa.com.ni, Alvaro Dieguez, president of the Hotel Association of Nicaragua, said that levels of 68% - 70% keep these companies profitable, but they are still striving to get better rates in order to create more jobs. "
Source: laprensa.com.ni
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December 2010
The tourism sector expects the start of high season to represent an increase in hotel occupancy.
According to a survey by the National Chamber of Tourism (CANATUR), an average 74% occupancy rate is projected for the first two weeks of the season, ranging from the 15th to the 30th of December.
February 2010
In January, hotel occupancy was 58.2%, less than in the same month of 2009, when it reached 64%.
For February, the Costa Rican Hotel Chamber is expecting hotel occupancy to be around 61.8%.
“The Hotel Occupancy Survey, conducted every month by the Costa Rican Hotel Chamber, revealed that most businessmen feel that this high season will be worse than the previous one”.
May 2010
In the last year, average hotel occupancy dropped by 51%.
The IX Tourism Survey of the Association for Research and Social Studies (ASIES), performed in 260 hotels throughout the country, also indicated that two thousand five hundred jobs were lost in the sector.
"Rubén Darío Narcissus, ASIES consultant, said that 44.000 hotel rooms were available in 2008, dropping to 35.000 in 2010.
December 2011
More rooms on offer will mean a 50% occupancy rate for hotels in the coming year.
Just this year over 600 rooms have joined the market with the openings of various hotels like the Trump, Victoria and Hilton Doubletree.
Hotel industry projections indicated that in October there would be an increase of 4% as a result of the climate change convention held in the capital city that month, but the occupancy rate reached 62.3% while in same month of 2010 it was 68.4%.
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