MEXICO CITY, July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoteles City Express S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: HCITY) ("Hoteles City Express" or "the Company"), announced today its results for the second quarter of 2018 ("2Q18").  The figures have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") and are presented in Mexican Pesos ("$").

Financial and Operating Highlights (2Q18)

• At the Chain level, Average Daily Rate ("ADR") and Revenue per Available Room ("RevPAR") increased by 3.2% and 1.7% in comparison with 2Q17, to $969 and $576, respectively. Chain occupancy in 2Q18 was 59.5%.
• Total Revenues were $708.8 million, which represents a 16.3% increase with respect to the same quarter in 2017, primarily due to a 11.9% increase in the number of Occupied Room Nights at the Chain level, as well as a 1.7% increase in RevPAR
• Operating Income was $142.8 million in 2Q18, an increase of 28.6% over the same quarter the year before.
• EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA were $236.3 million and $235.5 million, respectively, reflecting year on year increases of 19.7% and 16.6%. EBITDA Margin and Adjusted EBITDA Margin for the period came to 33.3% and 33.2%, respectively.
• Net Income for the period reached $69.1 million. Net Income margin was 9.7% for the quarter.
• At the close of the quarter, the Chain was operating 139 hotels, an increase of 14 new units compared to the 125 hotels operating at the close of the same period in 2017. The number of rooms in operation in 2Q18 was 15,691, an increase of 12.5% in comparison with 13,951 at the close of 2Q17.

Comments by Luis Barrios, CEO of Hoteles City Express:

"With solid performance indicators, the opening of 14 hotels over the last 12 months and a diverse inventory of more than 15,600 rooms in 4 countries and more than 70 cities in Latin America, Hoteles City announces its second quarter 2018 results.

Our portfolio of hotels benefits from an appropriate mix of geographic, industrial, and market diversification, which allow us to continue to show results along the different economic corridors where we are present. In particular, the hotels located along the border and north corridors of Mexico, as well as within metropolitan markets, continue to perform well.  As well, the hotels in the Gulf of Mexico and those within the hydrocarbon extraction areas are today registering more than 18 months of growth in RevPAR and delivering double-digit growth in this metric as compared to the same period of the previous year.

As a counterbalance, despite continuing to grow our chainwide RevPAR at healthy rates, which include a significantly higher base of comparison (more than 15% growth in the last 24 months), in this quarter we noted certain temporary effects in specific markets that marginally affected the performance of our portfolio, primarily that of our Established Hotels. We are confident that given the operational agility and commercial ability that we are known for, we will be able to reinforce the operational indicators of this portfolio and continue our strategy of market penetration in Mexico and the region in the coming months.

In terms of our financial indicators, Hoteles City Express again recorded profitable growth by expanding Total Revenues by more than 16% and Adjusted EBITDA by 17%, while continuing to show expansion in the operating leverage of our company. This is the result of completing the deployment of our transformation and empowerment efforts across all levels of the organization, our culture of real time operations and decision-making and, our commercial and distribution advantages at the local level.

Regarding our Development Plan, during 2Q18 we opened the City Express Comitán hotel in Chiapas and City Express Gustavo Baz in the State of Mexico, both in Mexico. With these properties we are one step closer to achieving our openings goal for 2018.

Finally, but no less importantly, on June 18 we announced the disbursement of an unsecured bank financing vehicle for $1,200 million and the rescheduling of the initial public offering of Fibra STAY. With the disbursement of the line of credit, we have guaranteed the financing of the 2018-2020 development plan. We will continue to include the results of the FSTAY portfolio in our quarterly reports, so that we will be ready to execute the transaction in an agile manner as soon as the appropriate market conditions are in place.  Given the current macroeconomic and geopolitical environment, we believe in hindsight that the decision to reschedule the offering preserved value and was in the best interest of all of our shareholders.

We are grateful for your continuing confidence and will continue working to consolidate our position as one the highest growth and most profitable companies in our industry in Latin America, investing to generate medium and long-term value."

Conference Call Details:

Hoteles City Express will host a conference call to discuss these results. Details on the call follow:

About Hoteles City Express:
Hoteles City Express is the leading and fastest-growing limited-service hotel chain in Mexico, in terms of number of hotels, number of rooms, geographic presence, market share and revenues. Founded in 2002, Hoteles City Express specializes in offering high-quality, comfortable and safe lodging at affordable prices via a limited-service hotel chain geared mainly towards domestic business travelers. With 139 hotels located in Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile and Colombia, Hoteles City Express operates five distinct brands: City Express, City Express Plus, City Express Suites, City Express Junior and City Centro, to serve different segments of its target market. In June 2013, Hoteles City Express completed its IPO and began trading on the Mexican Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "HCITY;" furthermore, in October of 2014, Hoteles City Express completed a follow on with the aim of accelerating its growth in new hotels in the short- and medium-term.

HCITY has formal coverage, notes and analytical assessments by the following financial institutions and analysts: Actinver (Pablo Duarte), Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Carlos Peyrelongue), Citigroup (Alejandro Lavín), GBM (Héctor Vázquez Montoya), ITAU BBA (Enrico Trotta), J.P. Morgan (Adrián Huerta), Morgan Stanley (Nikolaj Lippman), Santander (Cecilia Jiménez), Signum Research (Armando Rodriguez) and UBS (Marimar Torreblanca).

For further information, please visit our website: https://cityexpress.com/en/investors/

Disclaimer:
The information presented in this report contains certain forward-looking statements and information regarding Hoteles City Express, S.A.B. de C.V. and its subsidiaries (jointly, "the Company"), which are based on the understanding of its management, as well as assumptions and information currently available to the Company. These statements reflect the Company's current vision regarding future events and are subject to certain risks, factors of uncertainty and assumptions. Many factors may cause the results, performance or current achievements of the Company to be materially different with respect to any future result, performance or accomplishment of the Company that might be included, expressly or implicitly, within such forward-looking statements, including, among other things: changes in general economic and/or political conditions, governmental and commercial changes at the global level and in the countries in which the Company does business, changes in interest rates and inflation, exchange rate volatility, changes in business strategy and various other factors. If one or more of these risks or uncertainty factors should materialize, or if the assumptions used prove to be incorrect, actual results could differ materially from those described herein as anticipated, estimated or expected. The Company does not intend to assume, and does not assume any obligation whatsoever to update these forward looking statements.

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