New York City Tourism Is On The Rise: Hotel Business “Growing Every Week”
March 22, 2021 ctn_admin
The Big Apple is bouncing back.
Visitors from around the world are making their way back to New York City, and the hotel numbers show it. The New York Post says hotel occupancy in the Big Apple hit 47% for the week of Mar. 7 to Mar. 13 – the highest weekly average for the city since late June, according to STR, a data firm.
Last Saturday night, that figure jumped to 61.5%. That’s not as high as pre-pandemic numbers (87%), but it’s a huge improvement over January figures (38%).
Tom Harris, the acting president and chief operating officer at the Times Square Alliance, told the Post that more pedestrians are arriving at Times Square all the time.
“Over the last week we’ve noticed an uptick,” said Harris.
The Wall Street Journal also did a story on NYC’s tourism spike, quoting a Mississippi resident named Justus Dillon, who had never been to New York City before but recently decided to join a friend..
“I’m loving the city so far,” Dillon said from Times Square. She added that “even the small things have been cool…Like the subway. I never rode a subway before.”
The Journal said it was told by the Times Square Alliance that 115,000 people have been visiting per day, an increase of 15% from last September.
New York City’s hotel occupancy “has been improving each week,” Nick Minerd, a spokesman for the STR data firm, told The Post.
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