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 billboard’s occupancy along the Sunset Strip is expected to end Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 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
"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
It was in this manner that I discovered a room for immediate occupancy, in a house on a quiet street, the listing said, for eight dollars per week.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
And self-storage is popular, with record occupancies of 94.5 percent last year.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
Spaces with occupancies of less than 500 would be required to cut those attendance levels by 50 percent.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
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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