Hotels in the United States saw somewhat mild results during the month of October, with occupancy flat year over year at 68.6 percent and average daily rate up 1.9 percent year over year to $126.73, according to STR. The calendar shift of Jewish holidays from September in 2015 to October this year hampered year-over-year growth. While RevPAR has yet to go negative in 2016, a bellwether that would indicate the cycle is beginning its downward swing, October did mark the lowest RevPAR growth of any month since February 2010, according to STR senior vice president for lodging insights Jan Freitag. Among the top 25 markets by number of hotel rooms, Norfolk/Virginia Beach recorded the highest year-over-year increase in occupancy, 11.7 percent to 60.4 percent, and Minneapolis/St. Paul saw the largest rise in ADR, 8.3 percent to $131.65. Houston posted the steepest declines in both ADR, down 7.4 percent to $104.69, and occupancy, down 12.8 percent to 63.2 percent.