TAYLOR swift and Fleetwood Mac helped bring a summer boost to hotels in Glasgow, making demand the highest in Scotland.

Research tracking city centre hotel performance showed contrasting fortunes for hoteliers in Scotland’s three largest cities in June with Edinburgh yet to benefit from its festivals season while the volatile international oil and gas market has hit Aberdeen.

Fans flocked to Glasgow for performances from Taylor Swift, Fleetwood Mac and Elton John at the SSE Hydro, as well as the AC/DC concert at Hampden Park and the Glasgow Jazz Festival, according to the monthly Scottish Intercity Report from marketing firm LJ Research.

Demand for hotel beds was highest in Scotland as room occupancy rose to 92.7 per cent.

Buoyed by a number of large scale business and leisure events, room occupancy in the city was 95 per cent or above on 16 separate nights during the month.

Glasgow City Marketing Bureau said the impressive 7.4 per cent increase in hotel occupancy figures from June compared to last year can be attributed to the vast number of major events and large scale conferences that took place in the city throughout the month.

Conferences held collectively also welcomed more than 11,000 delegates to the city, and these included the European Society for Human Genetics, the Union National Conference and the International Conference on Cytometry.

Edinburgh hotels also benefitted from a surge of business and leisure guests as average occupancy for the month was 90.9 per cent.

But in Aberdeen the trend seen throughout the year was again apparent as fewer rooms were sold compared to last year - 69.1 per cent compared to 79.9 per cent in June 2014 which constituted a fall of 13.5 per cent.

Scott Taylor, chief executive of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, said three new hotels are also due to open.

He said: “Glasgow continues to be the go-to destination for major events and international conferences with substantial visitor and delegate footfall contributing to a tangible increase in our June figures compared to the same time last year.

"Not only will these new openings stimulate job creation and provide an extensive economic boost to the local economy, but it will meet demand in the city’s hospitality and tourism industry as we continue to welcome growing numbers of visitors to enjoy all the city has to offer.”

Iain Watson, chairman of the Aberdeen City and Shire Hotels’ Association, said it acknowledges room occupancy is falling and is a serious issue, but he said "we do need to put it in context" against a backdrop of more hotels being built rooms.

"For the past three years demand has been at an exceptional level. It would never have been possible to sustain that long-term and what we are now seeing is a return to the levels pre-2012.

“We are aware that there are fewer business travellers in the city because of the oil and gas downturn, but the number of leisure travellers is increasing."

Malcolm Roughead, chief executive of VisitScotland, said August will also receive a boost by holidaymakers from south of the border in the coming weeks.

He said: "On average, we welcome nearly 300,000 extra English visitors during August, with everyone keen to take advantage of all the amazing things to see and do in Scotland over the summer, especially in our Year of Food and Drink.”

Sean Morgan, managing director at LJ Research, said: “News that oil supply is set to expand due to the relaxing of Iran sanctions is likely to generate even greater uncertainty for hotels in Aberdeen.”