Occupancy Down, Rates Up at Fort Worth, Texas, Area Hotels.(Originated from Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas)

Aug. 27--Hotel occupancy in Fort Worth registered a very slight gain for the first six months of the year, a new survey reports, but slipped in Northeast Tarrant, Arlington and the Metroplex as a whole.

Room rates, meanwhile, rose slightly, according to the survey conducted by PKF/Hospitality Services of Houston.

Fort Worth, southeast Dallas and the North Stemmons Freeway/Love Field area of Dallas were the only sectors that posted occupancy increases in the survey, which divides the Metroplex into 12 sectors.

Fort Worth's hotels inched up 0.1 percentage points, hitting an occupancy rate of 63.7 percent. Hotels in the Love Field/Stemmons …