For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe, the volume of hotel bookings in Australia has returned to pre-pandemic levels, says a media report.
According to the World Hotel Index, data pulled on April 14, 2021 shows a rise to 102.45% of the volume of hotel bookings across Australia on April 14, 2019. Since the pandemic instigated international border closures and state lockdowns, there was a significant drop in bookings between March and May 2020, followed by an increase in domestic bookings, a steady plateauing for several months, and then a significant rise through November 2020.
Since December 2020, the volume of bookings has fluctuated between approximately 95% and 70% of the volume of bookings of two years prior, and in the last month has steadily grown as Australians embrace the new normal.
According to the report, the volume of bookings in Cairns, the Gold Coast, Newcastle, and Townsville has exceeded pre-pandemic levels several times in the last few months. Meanwhile, hotel bookings in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane are still currently 75%, 73.46% and 83.49% of pre-pandemic volumes respectively.
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