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The first half of 2024 confirms Accor’s progress outlook, as introduced at the Capital Markets Day on June 27, 2023 and reiterated in current earnings and income releases.
Sébastien Bazin, Chairman and CEO of Accor, stated: “Once once more in this first half-year, Accor posted stable performances, in line with the medium-term outlook we introduced to our buyers final 12 months. This demonstrates the power of our mannequin, the operational and monetary self-discipline of our groups, and the sturdy momentum of the Group and its manufacturers.
Activity in the second quarter remained sturdy in all areas and for all our manufacturers, our tempo of improvement accelerated and our main place in luxurious and life-style was additional strengthened by main partnerships. These performances allow us to elevate our RevPAR goal for 2024 and to reaffirm our confidence in the Group’s power and ambition.
The coming weeks may even be marked by the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, of which Accor is one in all the companions. For this distinctive occasion, our groups, who’ve been mobilised for months, will probably be placing their experience, their ardour for hospitality and their generosity at the service of the Athletes’ Village, the Media Village and all guests to our lodges, thereby serving to to elevate the profile of France all through the world.”
The Group’s diversification, each in phrases of geographies and segments, performs a key position for every of the two divisions. Demand stays typically sturdy and Accor has the required publicity to seize it.
During the first half of 2024, Accor opened 146 lodges, representing 24,000 rooms, i.e. internet unit progress of 4.1% over the final 12 months. At the finish of June 2024, the Group had a resort portfolio of 838,722 rooms (5,682 lodges) and a pipeline of 218,000 rooms (1,297 lodges).
Second quarter 2024 RevPAR
The Premium, Midscale and Economy (PM&E) division posted a 4% enhance in RevPAR compared to the second quarter of 2023, nonetheless principally pushed by costs slightly than by occupancy charges.
Group income
For the first half of 2024, the Group recorded income of €2,677 million, up 11% compared to the first half of 2023. This progress breaks down as a 4% enhance for the Premium, Midscale and Economy division and a 22% enhance for the Luxury & Lifestyle division.
Scope results, primarily associated to the takeover of Potel & Chabot (in October 2023) in the Luxury & Lifestyle division (Hotel Assets & Other section), contributed by €117 million.
Currency results had a damaging influence of €63 million, primarily associated to the Turkish lira (-39%), the Australian greenback (-4%), the Egyptian pound (-18%) and the Argentine peso (-77%).
Premium, Midscale and Economy income
Premium, Midscale and Economy, which incorporates charges from Management & Franchise (M&F), Services to Owners and Hotel Assets & Other of the Group’s Premium, Midscale and Economy manufacturers, generated income of €1,473 million, up 4% compared to the first half of 2023. This enhance is broadly in line with the degree of exercise in the first half.
The Management & Franchise (M&F) enterprise posted income of €431 million, up 7% compared to the first half of 2023 and barely exceeding RevPAR progress throughout the interval (+6%).
Services to Owners income, which incorporates Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Loyalty actions, in addition to shared companies and the reimbursement of resort prices, amounted to €538 million, up 3% compared to the first half of 2023. This enhance, which was extra reasonable than the change in RevPAR, displays a base impact from the earlier 12 months, talked about in the first quarter income launch, which included the re-invoicing of prices incurred by Accor in offering supporter reception companies throughout the soccer World Cup in Qatar.
Hotel Assets & Other income was up 2% compared to the first half of 2023. This section, which is intently tied to exercise in Australia, is affected by the present weak point of leisure demand.
Luxury & Lifestyle income
Luxury & Lifestyle, which incorporates charges from Management & Franchise (M&F), Services to Owners and Hotel Assets and Other of the Group’s Luxury & Lifestyle manufacturers, generated income of €1,243 million, up 22% compared to the first half of 2023. This enhance displays the wonderful efficiency of this enterprise, the enhance of the charges linked to the residential exercise and a scope impact linked to the takeover of Potel & Chabot.
The Management & Franchise (M&F) enterprise posted income of €242 million, up 15% compared to the first half of 2023, pushed by RevPAR progress (+7%) and the favorable timing of charges associated to the residential exercise in the Lifestyle section.
Services to Owners income, which incorporates Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Loyalty actions, in addition to shared companies and the reimbursement of resort prices, amounted to €716 million, up 9% compared to the first half of 2023. This enhance is linked to enterprise progress in phrases of RevPAR and the variety of rooms.
Hotel Assets & Other income was up 84% compared to the first half of 2023. This exercise features a important scope impact linked to the takeover of Potel & Chabot in October 2023.
The Management & Franchise (M&F) enterprise recorded income of €673 million, up 10% compared to the first half of 2023. This mirrored the enhance in RevPAR in the Group’s numerous areas and segments (+6% compared to 2023), amplified by the residential exercise in the Lifestyle section.
Group EBITDA
Group EBITDA amounted to €504 million for the first half of 2024, up 13% compared to the first half of 2023. This efficiency was linked to sturdy income, the working leverage of the M&F exercise and strict value self-discipline in Services to Owners, enabling the Group to put up optimistic EBITDA for this a part of the enterprise, as anticipated.
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