Download hotel Tokyo in April 2011 decreased by 28% compared to 2010

MOSCOW, June 3 – RIA Novosti. Japanese hotel occupancy rate in April 2011 decreased by 27,6% compared to the same period in 2010, according to a study of STR Global. In March, it fell by more than 21%. The devastating earthquake of magnitude 9.0 occurred in northeastern Japan on March 11, prompting struck prefecture, Tohoku region tsunami height of more than ten meters. According to recent reports, the victims of the elements were 15 000 310 people. Missing in six Japanese prefectures have registered about 8.4 thousand people. The largest number of victims mentioned in the prefecture of Miyagi – 9000 148. In Iwate Prefecture, killing more than 4.51 thousand people, in Fukushima Prefecture – more than 1.58 thousand people. After the earthquake and tsunami on the NPP Fukushima-1 "was recorded a series of accidents caused by failure of the cooling system. As a result of incidents at the station found several leaks radiation, forcing authorities to evacuate people from the 20-kilometer zone around the plant. The biggest decline in the load level detected hotels in Sendai, which is located closest to the epicenter of the earthquake. Indicators of their load in March of this year decreased by 36.7% compared with the same year earlier. Emphasizes that indicators loading hotels in Tokyo and Sapporo, located further away from the disaster area, also said its impact. Thus, the occupancy rate of hotels in the Japanese capital has fallen from 83% in March 2010 to 55% in March of this year, as people tried to go away from the zone of radioactive contamination. In cities located far from the center of the earthquake load indicators hotels have changed slightly. Thus, in Osaka, located further south of the danger zone download hotels declined by only 2.8%, while Kobe has even increased by 6%. Earnings per room (RevPar) in Sendai hotels in March of this year decreased by 22.7% in April jumped by more than 77%. According to STR Global, the demand for hotels is expected due to sustained, above all, the resumption of normal operation speed line trains in the Tohoku region, allowing volunteers and building teams to travel to the area of the accident. On the formation of demand is also influenced by the fact that insurance companies send a large number of their representatives in the Sendai area to assess the damage. Database of STR Global comprises more than 350 hotels in Japan with a total number fund more than 96 thousand units.