With the end of the summer travel surge, estimated gross operating profit for U.S. hotels came in lower than the previous month, according to STR‘s August 2021 monthly P&L data release.
August GOP was lower on a per-available-room basis as well as when indexed to the comparable month from 2019. Estimated GOP was 111% of 2019 levels in July but just 94% in August. The only key profitability metric to increase month over month was labor per available room.