Turkish and Croatian charter fleet managers will have a relaxed ride up to Düsseldorf next Saturday knowing that their booking plans are almost 40 % filled. Some out-performers from that countries will secretly smile at those numbers knowing that they even booked more than 50 %. But also the charter companies from Mallorca and the German Baltic Sea will start their boat show participation with a pleasant background of more than 38 % pre-bookings. The Italian and Greek charter fleet managers will definitely give their best during the next weeks to catch up closer to the other charter destinations. We can expect quite some attractive Early Booking rates that will be offered to enhance the booking volume in that classic yacht charter destinations.
How this pre-booking percentage was calculated? For each charter destination we determined the average amount of booked weeks per bareboat yacht during the last 2 years. While in German destinations 14 weeks would already mean a great occupancy, in Turkey charter boats should receive around 18 weeks per season. Than we simply set this Week/Season value in relation to already registered reservations (until 17.01.2013) in the YachtBooker reservation System. The result is the pre-booking in percent.
You should be aware that the displayed values are averaged. Within a single destination we noticed occupancy difference of more than 50 % depending on the charter companies success. Also we have not differentiated between motor yachts and sailing boats. But for the reason that powerboats make out less than 10 % of the registered charter yachts in YachtBooker we neglected this fact. However this makes clear that the early booking trends should only be applied to the sail boat charter department and are not representative for power boat charters in Europe.