Julia Buescher

An influx of Spring Breakers and a handful of March Madness basketball games at SDSU helped push weekly hotel demand to its highest level since July 2021. San Diego hotels sold a total of 359,522 room nights, an increase of 28,000 over the previous week and nearly matching room demand for the same week in 2019.County occupancy averaged 80.3%, up 6.1 points from the previous … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Mar. 13 to Mar. 19, 2022

San Diego County hotel demand remained robust this latest week with 331,951 room nights sold. This represents an increase of nearly 12,000 room nights from the previous week and only about 10,000 shy of the same week in 2019.County occupancy rose to 74.2%, up 3.1 points from the week prior. San Diego ranked 6th in the nation in occupancy (unchanged from the last week) and 3rd … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Mar. 6 to Mar. 12, 2022

A winter storm blew through San Diego during the latter part of this last week, dampening hotel demand a bit compared to the previous week. Despite the poor weather, two large events held downtown (the CRSSD music festival at Waterfront Park and Garth Brooks at Petco Park) help raise demand throughout the county on Saturday night. County hotels sold a total of 320,216 room … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Feb. 27 to Mar. 5, 2022

This latest week began with the last night of the President’s Day holiday on Sunday, which sold more than 50,000 room nights throughout the county. In total, county hotels sold 333,275 room nights for the week, an increase of 12,000 over the previous week.  This is the greatest level of demand since last August and just about equal to pre-pandemic demand in the same week of … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Feb. 20 to Feb. 26, 2022