Positive news in the hospitality sector in South Africa is recorded at the 5 Star hotel level, which despite experiencing substantial decline between 2009 and 2011, recorded a national average RevPAR (revenue per available room) annual increase of 15.6 percent during  2012. 

Joop Demes reports that South Africa’s top-ranked hotels are showing remarkable resilience, having come through a difficult trading cycle between the final quarter of 2008 to the third quarter of last year. Occupancy levels, which reached a high point in 2007, have picked up again, as has REVPAR (revenue per available room).