With significant events and an improving convention segment, October saw the strongest visitation of the pandemic era both on weekends and midweek as the destination welcomed nearly 3.4M visitors (up 15.5% MoM and down ‐7.6% from Oct 2019).
Hotel occupancy reached 81.6% for the month (up 8.6 pts MoM, down ‐8.4 pts vs. Oct 2019), as Weekend occupancy reached 90.4% (up 1.3 pts MoM) while Midweek occupancy improved from the prior month to 77.5% (up 11.4 pts MoM).
October room rates approached $174, significantly ahead of last month and Oct 2019 (up 11.5% MoM and up 28.3% vs. Oct 2019) while RevPAR neared $142, up 24.6% MoM and 16.4% ahead of Oct 2019.
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Thist graph shows visitor traffic for 2019 (blue), 2020 (orange) and 2021 (red).
Visitor traffic was down 7.6% compared to the same month in 2019.