Montreal hotels struggled in July

Montreal hotels have just gone through their worst July since 2009.

The Hotel Association of Greater Montreal told the Gazette on Thursday that hotel room revenues were down almost 15 percent from July of last year.

After a surprisingly decent June, bookings took a dive in July. The association V-P William Brown also said that there wasn’t a single cause for the decline. He pointed to the high Canadian dollar, the battered euro, an election year in the U.S. and the fallout from the student protests as key reasons.

The hotels will have a clearer idea of what the reason for the decline will be when airline figures for Montreal to Europe and the U.S. flights are reported.