MKG Mediterranean HIT Report: Record revenues for Spanish hotels in August 2016
Hotels in Spain recorded the highest performance in revenue per available room during August 2016, compared with the same month last year. On the contrary, hotels in France suffered the biggest losses, according to the MKG Mediterranean HIT Report (Hotel Industry Trends), which is published every month exclusively at Tornos News (www.tornosnews.com) and can be downloaded for FREE
The report records the changes in occupancy, average price and revenue per available room regarding hotels located in Greece, France, Croatia, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey and Tunisia.
Read the absolute numbers and percentage changes for all hotel sizes per country in the survey's full text.
Download freely for a year the MKG Mediterranean HIT Report (Hotel Industry Trends) exclusively at Tornos News (www.tornosnews.com).
Tornos News will also host at regular intervals MKG Group President and CEO Georges Panayotis' articles.
MKG Group profile
MKG Group is a European-based company, headquartered in Paris, France. The group operates various divisions within the tourism, hotel and hospitality sector, namely monitoring global trends in supply, demand and pipeline growth, including the worldwide chain hotel brand and chain hotel group rankings, as well as conducting specialised ad hoc industry research for various stakeholders, including private investors, developers, hoteliers (chain groups and independent properties), government and tourism associations, banking and financial institutions,and hedge funds.
MKG is the official industry monitor for a number of European tourism organisations, such as the French Ministry of Tourism, Tourism Office Lyon, Tourism office Brussels, offices in Spain, the Netherlands, and the European City Marketing Association (ECM). MKG also regularly supplies various other t ourism organisations and NGOs with trends and analytical reports, including fractions of the European Union, UN such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the UNWTO's International Labour Organization, as well as a number of hospitality educational institutions in Europe.
MKG’s database represents the largest industry performance sample in the EMEA region, supplied directly by all leading international chain hotels, as well as many regional groups and independent properties. MKG is associated with MKG Hospitality, HotelCompSet, MKG Qualiting, Hospitality-ON.com media platform, the Global Lodging Forum (GLF), Worldwide Hospitality Awards, and Hotel Class, the official hotel rating agency in France.
The group was founded in 1985 and currently has 110 employees. It contributed to the development of over 2.000 hotels in France, has offices in Paris, London, Cyprus and Athens and offers a printed and digital information service in English and French:
** Hospitality ON Web: http://mkg-group.com/en/our-events-and-the-press/hospitality-on-web
** Hospitality ON Magazine: http://mkg-group.com/en/our-events-and-the-press/hospitality-on-magazine
City Contact company profile
City Contact was founded in 1996 in order to provide printed information to foreign and domestic visitors of Greece's major hotels. It has currently developed an Info Stand® and Visitor's Free Editions and Brochures information network, collaborating exclusively with 220 top Athens, Crete, Rhodes, Corfu, Thessaloniki, Santorini and Mykonos hotels.
Moreover, it covers printed information needs of tourists by offering free publications at conferences, travel agencies, public institutions, trade fairs, embassies, yacht marinas, etc.
In 2004, the company initiated the Athens Walking Tours, drawing upon the extensive experience of its staff, and, ever since, these tours have turned into one of the most acclaimed and innovative tourism activities in Athens.
Athens Walking Tours offer today, on a daily and all year round basis, high-quality, historical and gastronomic interest guided tours to visitors of Athens, Chania and other popular Greek tourist destinations.
Tornos News was created by City Contact in April 2014 and is currently listed as the No. 1 news site * for Greek tourism professionals, with more than 250,000 unique readers **.
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