Jr. Although Veterans Day was subsequently returned to its traditional date of November 11, marking the armistice of World War I, the other Monday holidays remain. For those holidays we checked the supply, demand, and revenue for each of the weekends for all hotels contributing daily information to us and, separately, for those designated as resorts. If the holiday fell on Friday or Saturday we included only those two days in our analysis. Our comparisons of occupancy percentages and ADR for resort hotels and all other hotels in the sample are shown in Exhibits 9 and 10. Some highlights of the comparisons follow.
Thanksgiving is a disaster for all hotels.
Those figures are rounded extrapolations from our sample. In general, although resort hotels did little discounting, all other properties had lower ADRs on holiday weekends, similar to the pattern shown in Exhibit 8 for regular weekends. Halloween, Part X Just for fun, we also analyzed the weekend of Halloween, which is not generally recognized as a holiday that involves time off from work, and Easter, which is not a federal holiday but is often connected to public-school vacations. We found a substantial occupancy drop at all locations and at all hotel types. Weekend occupancies have also been boosted by the demand for extended-stay facilities and probably by the special prices offered by airlines for flights that require a Saturday stay.