Huazhu Group Limited announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter and interim ended June 30, 2021.
As of June 30, 2021, Huazhu’s worldwide hotel network in operation totaled 7,126 hotels and 692,284 rooms, including 122 hotels from DH. During the second quarter of 2021, our Legacy-Huazhu business opened 399 hotels, including 18 leased (or leased-and-operated) hotels and 381 manachised (or franchised-and-managed) hotels and franchised hotels, and closed a total of 156 hotels, including 7 leased hotels and 149 manachised and franchised hotels. During the second quarter of 2021, the Legacy-DH business opened 2 hotels, including 1 leased hotel and 1 manachised and franchised hotel. As of June 30, 2021, Huazhu had a total of 2,734 unopened hotels in the pipeline, including 2,696 hotels from the Legacy-Huazhu business and 38 hotels from the Legacy-DH busi
The ADR was RMB255 in the second quarter of 2021, compared with RMB185 in the second quarter of 2020, RMB209 in the previous quarter, and RMB236 in the second quarter of 2019.
The occupancy rate for all Legacy-Huazhu hotels in operation was 82.3% in the second quarter of 2021, compared with 68.8% in the second quarter of 2020, 66.2% in the previous quarter, and 86.9% in the second quarter of 2019.
Blended RevPAR was RMB210 in the second quarter of 2021, compared with RMB127 in the second quarter of 2020, RMB138 in the previous quarter, and RMB206 in the second quarter of 2019.
For all Legacy-Huazhu hotels which had been in operation for at least 18 months, the same-hotel RevPAR was RMB210 for the second quarter of 2021, representing a 58.1% increase from RMB133 for the second quarter of 2020, with a 33.9% increase in ADR and a 12.8-percentage-point increase in occupancy rate; comparing the second quarter of 2021 with the pre-COVID-19 second quarter of 2019, RevPAR represented a 5.7% decrease from RMB216 for the second quarter of 2019, with a 1.0% increase in ADR, and a 6.0-percentage-point decrease in occupancy rate.
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