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Numbers show hotel industry roaring back
Key metrics like bookings, cancellations and room rates suggest that small accommodation businesses have found their way back into pre-pandemic shape.
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ew data point to a strong recovery of small accommodation businesses with key metrics like bookings, cancellations and room rates back to pre-pandemic levels, but an industry insider hesitates to interpret the figures as a full recovery.
The data released by property management platform Little Hotelier at a press conference on Tuesday detail that hotel booking orders in Indonesia have either regained or exceeded 2019 figures in the first quarter of 2023.
“I cannot say that the hotel industry has fully recovered, but it’s recovering,” said Little Hotelier regional sales manager Tander R. Lowongan on Tuesday.
Little Hotelier, which provides software to run small hotels and bed-and-breakfasts, further revealed that most hotel bookings across Indonesia last year were made through the prominent international portals Booking.com, Agoda and Expedia Group.
Home-grown platforms Traveloka, Tiket.com and PegiPegi came in fourth, sixth and 12th place, respectively.
The three local players had topped the competition in 2021 amid international travel restrictions, explained Tander.
The figures gathered by the company do not represent the whole accommodation market, given that they were sourced only from properties using the services of Little Hotelier and its parent company SiteMinder, a publicly listed hotel management company based in Australia.
