Puerto Rico saw average hotel room occupancy fall by 6.1 percentage points in March 2019 to 75.6%.

According to the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC), the hotels and resorts endorsed by the PRTC saw the number of non-resident hotel registrations increase by 47.4% in March 2019, growing from 108,842 registrations in March 2018 to 160,444 registrations in March 2019. Registrations by local residents grew by 24.6% from 31,825 in March 2018 to 39,659 in March 2019. The number of hotel registrations made by guests from the USA increased by 51.3%, from 96,657 in March 2018 to 146,249 this March. Puerto Rico was severely impacted in September 2017 by Hurricane Maria which resulted in damage to, and the closure of, a number of hotels in Puerto Rico negatively impacting business in late 2017 and early 2018.

PRTC reports that the number of hotel/resort available room nights grew by 3.3% in 2019, from 360,959 in March 2018 to 372,777 in March 2019. The number of occupied room nights fell by 4.4% from 294,807 in 2018 to 281,978 in 2019 largely due to a decline in the average length of stay from 3.4 nights to 2.5 nights with average room occupancy falling by 6.1 percentage points from 81.7% in 2018 to 75.6% in 2019. ADR grew by 9.3% from $166.25 in March 2018 to $181.73 in March 2019.

In the first three months of 2019 the number of non-resident hotel registrations increased by 62.3%, growing from 268,424 registrations in 2018 to 435,578 registrations in 2019. Registrations by local residents grew by 25.7% from 83,567 in 2018 to 105,013 in 2019. Registrations by visitors from the USA increased by 73.6%, from 227,773 in 2018 to 395,324 this year.
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The number of hotel/resort available room nights grew by 1.7% in 2019, from 1,053,996 in 2018 to 1,071,800 in 2019. The number of occupied room nights fell by 11.4% however from 867,285 in 2018 to 768,137 in 2019 largely due to a decline in the average length of stay from 3.9 nights in 2018 to 2.5 nights in 2019, with average room occupancy falling by 10.6 percentage points from 82.3% in 2018 to 71.7% in 2019. ADR grew by 8.8% from $165.69 in 2018 to $180.22 in 2019.