occupancy
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Hotel occupancy was down three percent in the quarter to end-June, TUI said, an improvement from the six percent fall seen in the previous six months.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The city of Newark has been pressing for The GEO Group to permit a fire inspection and obtain a certificate of occupancy for the sprawling private jail.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The building has an occupancy rate of around 70% — leases that the port will inherit and make money from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"It is to ensure that viable tourism businesses are not penalised by an occupancy requirement that many simply cannot achieve."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
On the immediate local front, reports showed that rental rates for apartments in Odessa had dropped 10 percent and occupancy rates 8 percent, boding disaster for a market that was woefully overbuilt from the boom.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Middle East hotel occupancies initially rose due to evacuations but are now weak; rising oil prices pose a broader risk to air travel.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
She said much of the available accommodation is in "houses of multiple occupancies with shared amenities", but "this position is reflected nationally".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025
Mr. Freitag said the lower hotel occupancies in some cities may reflect a lower return-to-office rate in those places, which reduces the ability to have in-person business meetings.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
Some commercial property managers report office buildings near 35 percent to 50 percent of pre-pandemic occupancies, while their parking garages are at 55 to 70 percent.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2022
The notable scarcity of roofing timbers in the ruins can probably be explained by the hypothesis of successive occupancies and subsequent or repeated use of material difficult to obtain.
From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff
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