With stronger weekends but declines midweek vs. August 2021, September visitation saw some stabilization at approximately 2.9M visitors (down ‐2.1% MoM and down ‐15.5% from September 2019) after seeing sharper declines in August as the COVID Delta variant surged.
Hotel occupancy reached 73.0% for the month (up 0.2 pts MoM, down ‐15.3 pts vs. September 2019), as Weekend occupancy improved month‐over‐month to 89.1% (up 2.0 pts MoM) while Midweek occupancy declined from the prior month to 66.1% (down ‐1.7 pts MoM).
September room rates exceeded $155, the highest in the pandemic era, up 11.0% MoM and up 13.6% vs. September 2019 as RevPAR came in at $113.73, up 11.3% MoM and down ‐6.1% vs. September 2019
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Thist graph shows visitor traffic for 2019 (blue), 2020 (orange) and 2021 (red).
Visitor traffic was down 15.5% compared to the same month in 2019.