STR's Middle East &Africa hotel data for January 2019 reported that Middle East hotels saw occupancy decrease 0.9% to 68.2% in January as ADR dropped 8.9% to US$154.18 and RevPAR declined 9.6% to $105.16. Abu Dhabi, however, went against the overall results and showed positive growth in January 2019 when compared to the same period in 2018. Witnessing a good start to 2019, hotels in Abu Dhabi saw a 1.9% increase in occupancy to 78%, followed by a rise in ADR (5.4%) to AED 449