I love this link to check on year over year occupancy rates. Looks like this year is an improvement over 2009. http://www.ahqr.com.mx/espanol/files/comparativo.htm :wink3:
Well, I deal with some of the Hotels and it's been a little weird. There is one hotel that never, even in the off season, is never below 70% and for over a week they have been at or slightly above 35%. But the Hotel I am primarily at has been over capacity for a couple weeks.
I doubt these numbers very highly. Since having been in Cancun a couple of weeks ago when they claim to have had over 50% occupancy in the hotel zone it sure looked like it was well under that number. Also what hotel is occupied never below 70%. That is also highly unlikely in my opinion. Possible but highly unlikely.
A lot of the hotels falsely report their numbers for various reasons.... if they reported their true numbers they might scare off investors, buyers, stock holders, and be forced to offer lower prices... Even after Wilma when the hotels were shut down some of them reported 50% which was total crap.. so basically I'm with gabesz.. I don't believe them for a second...
I read an article recently that was quoting numbers like 40 to 50%, but that was probably April or May... still, I would be surprised if the actual numbers are as good as that web page claims.
Temptations ALWAYS has very hight occupancy...even in low season they are at around 70%...but right now they are at 35%. We do business with Temp and I know for a fact they have very high occ rates.
Temptation is one of many hotels in Cancun. Even if they are fully sold out it does not indicate the same for the rest of the hotel zone.
Hotels can "fudge" their numbers in a variety of ways. Timeshare hotels in particular, they can count "sold weeks" regardless of whether the people are actually using the weeks or the units, empty rooms being counted as full.
Intersting comments! In March the management of the Omni told me they were booked at 100% through early May and it was full when we were most recently there. All depends on the property and time of year I guess.
The hotels with good reputations and a good business model probably don't need to "fudge" their numbers but many others do... after all you wouldn't want to be the hotel with 10% occupancy when everyone else reports 90%, else you look really, really, bad...
