HOTELS in Scotland achieved a year-on-year rise in overall revenue per available room in June, while those in England and Wales suffered falls, accountancy firm PKF's latest sector survey reveals.

Hotels in Aberdeen fuelled the year-on-year increase in revenue per available room, or rooms yield, achieved by Scotland in June, as the oil and gas sector remained strong.

Scottish hotels achieved an occupancy rate of 81.6% in June, down from 82.8% in the same month last year.

However, a rise in the average room rate enabled hotels in Scotland to achieve a 0.2% year-on-year rise in revenue per available room to £61.83 in June.

This contrasted with a fall of 2.3% in rooms yield for "regional UK", a definition that reflects the survey's exclusion of London.

England and Wales suffered respective year-on-year drops in rooms yield of 2.5%, and 14.6% in June.

Alastair Rae, a partner who covers the real estate and hospitality sector at PKF, noted the June rooms yield for Scottish hotels of £61.83 was significantly higher than the £48.33 average for regional UK, indicating "prices stabilising at a reasonable level".

He added: "These revenue figures will be welcome news for Scotland's hoteliers, who have had a difficult few months."

Aberdeen hotels achieved revenue per available room of £61.47 in June, up 6.7% on a year earlier. Hotels in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness posted respective 1.5%, 4.7%, and 0.3% falls in rooms yield, to £77.07, £49.14, and £55.93.