Rainy, cooler weather may have put a damper on travel to San Diego last week. San Diego County hotels sold a total of 340,096 room nights, 15,000 fewer than the prior week. Nonetheless, last week marks the seventh consecutive week when San Diego properties sold at least 300,000 rooms, and the more than 1.5 million room nights sold in March puts the region within 3% of the … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Mar. 27 to Apr. 2, 2022
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Tourism Economics report shows strong rebound for industry, forecasts continued growth
A new report prepared for the SDTA by Tourism Economics offers plenty of positive news for the regional tourism industry, showing big improvements in visitorship, room demand and other categories for the third quarter of 2021. Those gains came despite complications caused by the Omicron virus variant, inflation and other factors. The report also projects a much-welcome … [Read more...] about Tourism Economics report shows strong rebound for industry, forecasts continued growth
Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Mar. 20 to Mar. 26, 2022
Hotel demand in San Diego continued its upward trajectory with the county selling a total of 365,543 room nights this last week. This represents an increase of 6,000 room nights over the previous week and surpasses the total number of room nights sold in the same week of 2019 by more than 2,300 room nights – the first week in which room night demand exceeded pre-pandemic levels … [Read more...] about Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Mar. 20 to Mar. 26, 2022
Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Mar. 13 to Mar. 19, 2022
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
Weekly Hotel Performance Update – Mar. 6 to Mar. 12, 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