Hotels: Trading Statistics
Statistical release P6441 Hotels: trading statistics August 2001 Co-operation between Statistics South Africa Embargo: 13:00 (Stats SA), the citizens of the country, the private sector and government institutions is essential Date: 18 October 2001 for a successful statistical system. Without continued co-operation and goodwill, the timely release of relevant and reliable official statistics will not be possible. Stats SA publishes approximately three hundred different releases each year. It is not economically viable to produce them in more than one of South Africa’s eleven official languages. Since the releases are used extensively, not only locally, but also by international economic and social-scientific communities, Stats SA releases are published in English only. 1 P6441 Key figures for the month ended August 2001 Actual estimates % change % change % change between between August August between June 2000 to January 2000 to 2000 2001 August 2000 August 2000 August 2000 and and and August 2001 June 2001 to January 2001 to August 2001 August 2001 Room occupancy rate (%) 49,7 50,9 2,4 0,5 0,8 Bed occupancy rate (%) 33,1 34,0 2,7 0,5 0,6 Hotel income (R million) 405,6 423,2 4,3 1,9 2,2 Key findings for the month ended August 2001 The room occupancy rate and the bed occupancy rate of hotels in South Africa for August 2001 increased by 2,4% and 2,7% respectively, compared with August 2000. Increases in the room occupancy rates were recorded in 7 of the 9 provinces. KwaZulu-Natal recorded the largest increase in the room occupancy rate (+10,8%), followed by Mpumalanga (+8,5%) and Northern Cape (+4,9%).
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