Last week the city’s hotels hosted the highest number of visitors since the start of the year, perhaps evidence that 2022 will shepherd in a tourism recovery.
January and February are typically the city’s slowest months for hotel stays, according to STR, which tracks the industry.
During the week that ended Feb. 19—before the long holiday weekend—occupancy averaged 56.5%, and it hit 69.7% for the weekend of Feb. 12, STR said. That full-week occupancy rate was up 40% from early January, when staff shortages and event cancellations amid a surge of Covid-19 cases pushed occupancy down to 40.3%.
Before worries about the omicron Covid-19 wave upset the
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