Total income for the tourist accommodation industry rose 1.8% in September from a year earlier, Stats SA showed on Monday. The industry made R2.08bn in September‚ compared with R1.927bn in September last year. Income from accommodation — which excludes restaurant and bar sales and other income — was 3.8% higher than a year ago, as a 5.4% increase in the average income per stay unit nights sold more than made up for a 1.5% fall in the number of stay unit nights sold. The types of accommodation that recorded the largest year-on-year growth in income in September were caravan parks and camping sites (up 52%)‚ guesthouses and guest farms (10.3%)‚ and "other" accommodation (9.8%.) The statistics show that income from accommodation increased by 4.4% in the third quarter of 2017 compared with the third quarter of 2016.
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