Hotel Bed Occupancy Now At 55% As Businesses Open Up
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Foreign clients in the restaurant services also increased in the same period by 9.0 percentage points to 30.0 percent, from 21.0 percent, following the increased tourist arrivals with the improving tourism activities.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Overall, local guests continued to account for the majority of the clientele population at 69.0 percent of accommodation and 70.0 percent of restaurant services between April and May 2022, compared to 62.0 percent and 68.7 percent, respectively, during the period before the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the month, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) released the Monetary Policy Committee Hotels Survey-May 2022, a report which highlights the performance of hotels.
Overall, all the sampled hotels indicated that they were in operation, representing a 6.0 percentage points increase to 100.0 percent in May 2022, from the 94.0 percent operation rate in May 2021.
Additionally, two key hotels reopened in April and May 2022. The graph below shows the overall percentage of the number of operating hotels in Kenya between January 2021 to May 2021:
The average bed occupancy in the month of May averaged 55.0 percent, 4.0 percentage points higher than 51.0 percent recorded in the month of April 2022.
This was attributable to increased demand for hotels during the school holidays in March and April, particularly in Mombasa and Nairobi.
The graph below highlights the hotel bed occupancy rates in Kenya between January 2021 to May 2022:
Overall, local guests continued to account for the majority of the clientele population at 69.0 percent of accommodation and 70.0 percent of restaurant services between April and May 2022, compared to 62.0 percent and 68.7 percent, respectively, during the period before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The share of foreign clientele in accommodation increased by 7.0 percentage points to 31.0 percent between April 2022 and May 2022 from 24.0 percent between February 2022 and March 2022.
Foreign clients in the restaurant services also increased in the same period by 9.0 percentage points to 30.0 percent, from 21.0 percent, following the increased tourist arrivals with the improving tourism activities.
The graphs below indicate the summaries of accommodation and restaurant clients served by hotels in Kenya;
For the tourism industry, the sector has been on a recovery path, however, data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics(KNBS), so far indicates that the number of international visitors in Q1’2022 declined to come in at 225,321 from 240,019 in Q4’2021 attributed to continued Travel Advisories that might have a damping effect on this improvement.
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