M&C enjoys Olympics pick-up
Revenue per available room (RevPAR), a key metric in the hotel business, rose in the third quarter at Millennium & Copthorne (M&C), with London enjoying an Olympic boost.
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Revenue per available room (RevPAR), a key metric in the hotel business, rose in the third quarter at Millennium & Copthorne (M&C), with London enjoying an Olympic boost.
M&C's revPAR in the third quarter improved 2.6% to £71.23 from £69.41 the year before. RevPAR in London was up 20.2% year-on-year, and also increased in the Rest of Europe (5.6%) and the US (1.5%), despite an 8.0% decline in New York. However, revPAR declined by 0.2% in Asia.
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Total revenue fell 21.1%, however, to £191.2m from £242.m the year before, but on a like-for-like basis, total revenue decreased by only 1.2% to £190.6m (2011: £193.0m). Hotels revenue slipped 3.9% to £187.7m from £195.4m in the third quarter of 2011.
Headline profit before tax virtually halved to £39.0m from £75.9m a year earlier, while the statutory profit before tax figure was 45.0% lower year-on-year at £38.1m.
Basic earnings per share retreated 48.4% to 9.5p from 18.4p the year before.
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