- Q3 group RevPAR +10.5% vs 2022, with Americas +4.1%, EMEAA +15.9% and Greater China +43.2%
- Q3 group RevPAR +12.8% vs 2019, with Americas +13.8%, EMEAA +17.5% and Greater China +9.3%
- Average daily rate +4.1% vs 2022, +14.8% vs 2019; occupancy +4.1%pts vs 2022, (1.3)%pts vs 2019
- Gross system size growth +6.2% YOY, +3.1% YTD; opened 7.7k rooms (50 hotels) in Q3, similar to 2022
- Net system size growth +4.7% YOY, +2.0% YTD; excluding Iberostar, +2.9% YOY, +1.6% YTD
- Global system of 930k rooms (6,261 hotels); 67% across midscale segments, 33% across upscale and luxury
- Signed 16.8k rooms (123 hotels) in Q3, +27% vs 2022; global pipeline of 292k rooms (1,978 hotels), +5.1% YOY
- On track to have returned $1.0bn to shareholders in 2023 through share buybacks and dividend payments
Elie Maalouf, Chief Executive Officer, IHG Hotels & Resorts, said:
“Travel demand remained very healthy during the quarter, and I would like to thank all our teams for supporting another strong trading period. Q3 RevPAR increased 10% versus 2022 and 13% versus 2019, representing the fifth quarter of sequential improvement exceeding pre-pandemic highs. Greater China continued its excellent rebound with RevPAR now above 2019, which the Americas achieved in the second quarter of last year and EMEAA in the fourth quarter. Group-wide occupancy was 72%, just one percentage point behind 2019 which further confirms the near-complete return to pre-Covid levels of demand. Pricing remained very robust. As well as year on year RevPAR growth in each of our three regions, it was also pleasing to see rooms revenue growth for each of leisure, business and group travel.
We opened nearly eight thousand rooms across 50 hotels in the quarter, and added 17 thousand rooms to our pipeline across 123 properties. Year to date, signings are up by 16%. Reflecting the breadth and attractiveness of our portfolio, ‘quicker to market’ conversions have increased this year to be over one-third of openings and signings. This will soon be further boosted by our new midscale conversion brand, Garner, which became franchise ready in September. There was good development progress across all our categories, and our six Luxury & Lifestyle brands continue to represent a growing proportion of IHG with over 800 open and pipeline hotels in that category.
As IHG powers forward to provide industry-leading advantages for our guests and hotels owners across our brand portfolio, loyalty programme and entire enterprise platform, we expect to close-out 2023 with very strong financial performance. Looking further ahead, whilst there are macro-economic uncertainties and some short-term financing challenges holding back new hotel development, I am excited about the future for IHG and the attractive, long-term demand drivers for our markets. As such, we’re confident in the strengths of IHG’s business model, scale and in our strategic priorities to capture sustainable, profitable growth.”
RevPAR (revenue per available room), ADR (average daily rate) and occupancy are on a comparable basis, based on comparability as at 30 September 2023 and includes hotels that have traded in all months in both the current and the prior year. This same group of hotels is also used to compare RevPAR performance for 2023 vs 2019. The principal exclusions in deriving these measures are new openings, properties under major refurbishments and removals. See ‘Use of key performance measures and non-GAAP measures’ in IHG’s full year and half year results announcements for further information on the definitions.
