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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour heightened Europe performance levels amid popular tourist season
11 September 2024
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour took Europe by storm this summer, with 47 concerts across 17 cities over a 15-week period from May to August.
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Europe
Industry Updates
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Hotels across Germany are filling up for UEFA Euro 2024
29 May 2024
Set to take place across multiple locations in Germany, the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship is expected to affect hotel performance just as much as football fans. Utilizing Forward STAR data, the markets are already showing spikes in hotel bookings on and around the match dates.
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How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour allowed Asia Pacific hotels to achieve their “wildest dreams”
20 March 2024
Taylor Swift kicked off the second international leg of her wildly successful Eras Tour in early February, and Asia Pacific hoteliers were, in fact, “ready for it”. The seventeen-night leg gave a much-needed performance boost to Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore hotels.
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Regional update: 2023 data and the year ahead
8 March 2024
In this global update, we take a journey through each of the four world regions – focusing on performance, pipeline, and factors that influenced the data in 2023, while also looking ahead to what’s in store for the rest of 2024.
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Spain hotels positioned for strong summer season
3 July 2023
Spain's key leisure markets, Andalusia, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, are on track to see a highly successful summer. Barcelona is also anticipating a strong season with occupancy on the books spiking at 83%.
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Are concerts “running the world?”: A look at how Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour has impacted Europe hotel performance
19 June 2023
Feeling the music after our recent Taylor Swift tour analysis, we took a quick look at Beyoncé’s impact on actualized performance in the U.K. and Sweden, as well as forward bookings in five active Forward STAR markets.
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Healthy outlook for Europe hotels: Corporate demand recovering, leisure travel remains resilient
23 May 2023
Europe hotel performance caused some reason for concern during the first quarter of 2023, but momentum points to healthy performance ahead for gateway cities and secondary markets thanks to recovering corporate demand as well as resilient leisure travel.
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Failte Ireland: 2022 Hotel Survey with a focus on STR’s Forward STAR
10 March 2023
In this case study, we examine the 6 Nations rugby tournament, and the positive trends which can be observed in the destination over the period leading up to the games.
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Ireland’s hotel industry is well-positioned heading into 2023
11 November 2022
Ireland's hotel industry proved resilient this year with strong performance recovery, and evidence shows that strength will continue into 2023, albeit with economic headwinds in our summary report for Fáilte Ireland.
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U.K. Hospitality Radar - September 2022
26 October 2022
U.K. Hospitality Radar - September 2022
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Dublin hotel performance soared during Garth Brooks tour, late bookings were part of the success
5 October 2022
Actualized data from Garth Brooks’ tour dates in Dublin backed up previous analysis of forward-looking data. Performance popped, and shorter booking windows were part of the equation.
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Europe’s historical and forward-looking hotel data shows music event boost
15 August 2022
This piece shows strong alignment between occupancy on the books (Forward STAR) and actualized levels as well as the overall boost that Europe hotels are receiving from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Ed Sheeran, Elton John, and Westlife.
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Video: Spain market update - Q2 2022
4 May 2022
Spain market update - Q2 2022
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Belfast seeing a surge in spring and summer bookings
25 April 2022
Ed Sheeran, André Rieu, Queen + Adam Lambert…they are all playing a role in lifting Belfast’s hotel bookings in the coming months.
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Hotel bookings continue to grow in anticipation of Commonwealth Games in Birmingham
13 April 2022
Birmingham’s hotel occupancy on the books is peaking at 78% for this summer’s Commonwealth Games. A few months back, levels were peaking at just 55%. Read more in this latest Forward STAR piece.
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Europe hotel occupancy remains stable amid war in Ukraine
28 March 2022
Europe’s hotel performance has remained stable amid the war in Ukraine, and countries bordering the conflict area have seen a refugee-driven lift in occupancy. Read more on this analysis of historical and forward-looking data in the region.
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Video: U.K. hospitality outlook
24 March 2022
Cristina Balekjian gives an outlook of the hospitality industry in the United Kingdom. Watch now.
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6 Nations, music acts lifting Cardiff’s hotel bookings for 2022
10 February 2022
With a more stabilized pandemic situation, large-scale events like 6 Nations, and concerts from the Stereophonics and Ed Sheeran, are lifting Cardiff’s occupancy on the books for 2022.
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Music events are boosting hotel demand for several European markets in 2022
2 February 2022
Europe is set to showcase a wide array of music events in 2022, and the large crowds they are likely to draw are music to the ears of local hoteliers. In Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow and Turin, music lovers will equal beds in heads and drive larger booking windows.
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Video: UK hospitality radar outlook 2022
28 January 2022
Looking ahead at UK hospitality performance
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