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Grant Thornton Hotel Survey 2014
Grant Thornton Hotel Survey 2014
This is an Executive Summary of the full 64 page Hotel Survey Report. Full copies can be obtained from Grant Thornton Vietnam.
Introduction
Grant Thornton Vietnam’s Hotel Survey 2014 This report is prepared to provide readers with a
presents financial, operational and marketing general, as well as specific, view on hotel operations in
information for the 2013 financial year from a Vietnam by presenting data covering different criteria
range of Vietnamese hotels and resorts. for analysis such as hotel facilities, staffing, financial
statements and market data. For financial analysis, the
For simplicity, “Hotel” refers to both hotels and data is shown up to net profit before interest, tax,
resorts, with our survey covering 3, 4 and 5-Star rated depreciation and amortisation (“EBITDA”) for the
hotels. Statistics are presented by Star Category (hotel purpose of relevant comparability. The unit of
rankings), Hotel Size (number of rooms) and Hotel currency is the United States Dollar.
Region (location).
As can be seen later in this report, most data is
When presenting the statistics, hotel size is defined presented in percentage terms or as averages. For
within three categories ranging from small to large instance, with financial statements, Dollar figures are
hotels, described as less than 75 rooms, 75 to 150 shown as a percentage of total revenues. In the market
rooms and more than 150 rooms. data analysis and other sections, statistics are in the
form of averages of the respective items.
Lastly, hotel regions are separated into the three main For ease of comparison, the report presents the survey
areas of Vietnam; the North, the Central and results of each specific category alongside key findings.
Highlands and the South. In the North, the hotel In the Appendices, readers can also find tables
participants are located in the capital Hanoi, Sapa and showing the minimum, maximum and mean values of
Ha Long City. In the Central and Highlands region, the market data for the 2012 and 2013 financial years. This
hotels are located in cities such as Da Nang, Hoi An, report, however, does not attempt to set operating
Hue, Nha Trang and Phan Thiet. Hotel participants results for the Vietnam hotel industry. The figures and
from the South are mainly located in Ho Chi Minh ratios in this report should not be considered as
City, Phu Quoc, Vung Tau and Mekong Delta. standards for any type of property.
In this year’s survey, the number of participants from The report users also need to note that not all changes
3-Star hotels is not as extensive as in earlier years, from one year’s results to another are due to actual
particularly in the North. Together with the change in year-to-year differences. Sometimes, they may be a
hotel mix of this category, these may cause significant result of a different mix of survey participants. Readers
year-on-year movements in the analysis. should note that due to limits on analysing data based
on specific sample sizes, the results should be regarded
as indicative only.
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Sapa Total
No. of Hotel 11
No. of Room 587
Hanoi Total
No. of Hotel 127
No. of Room 11,993
HCMC Total
No. of Hotel 140
No. of Room 15,685 Phan Thiet Total
Can Tho Total No. of Hotel 52
No. of Hotel 11
No. of Room 4,122
No. of Room 709
No. of Hotel 10
No. of Room 632
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Key trends
Average Annual Room Rates by Star ranking (2007-2013) Average Occupancy Rates by Region (2007-2013)
200 90%
180 80%
160 70%
140
60%
120
USD
50%
100
40%
80
60 30%
40 20%
20 10%
0 0%
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
North Central and Highlands South
3-Star 4-Star 5-Star
2.7% decrease in average room rates with 2.4% increase in overall occupancy rates with
5-Star hotels declining by 5.5% the Central and Highlands growing by 3.7%
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2013 was another successful year of Annual Room Rate, Occupancy Rate and RevPAR (2004-
Vietnam’s tourism industry. During the year, 2014)
Vietnam welcomed 7,572,352 international
120 80%
visitors, increasing by 10.6%, a little lower
70%
than the 13.9% growth rate experienced in 100
2012. This number, in fact, exceeded the 60%
30%
40
Grant Thornton’s Hotel Survey report 2014 provides 20%
1
RevPAR: Revenue Per Available Room
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International Domestic
10,000
Others
Oceania 8.4% Vietnamese
8.6% 24.7%
North
America
6.7%
Asia
Europe (excluding
29.2% Vietnam)
22.4%
2013
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Purpose of Stay
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Purpose of Stay (2003 – 2013)
100%
5.8% 10.9% 9.2% 8.3% 11.8% 9.0%
13.4% 12.2% 13.5% 14.0%
90% 2.3% 17.3% 5.4%
3.9% 6.2% 4.9% 7.1%
2.7% 3.0% 6.8%
80% 4.0% 7.6%
21.6%
22.0% 26.6%
70% 27.8% 27.7% 28.2%
31.9% 30.0% 31.1%
26.6% 29.1%
60%
50%
24.2%
26.9%
40% 24.3% 33.8% 40.1%
23.0% 25.2% 25.7% 32.2%
32.2% 35.3%
30%
20% 20.0%
26.4% 23.1% 25.8%
23.6% 22.9% 21.0% 16.6% 21.4%
10% 14.5% 16.1%
0%
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Government Officials Business Travellers Individual Tourists Tour groups Conference Participants Other Guests
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Channels of Reservations 2013
11.6%
25.8% Direct booking with hotel
(including Hotel GDS)
Internet Sales
2013
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