Hotels in City Centers Still Struggle as Other Hospitality Properties Recover: Data
Originally published on September 22, 2021 by Shira Petrack for Placer
Our latest whitepaper analyzes the tourism and travel recovery following a year and a half of extraordinary challenges. We dove into foot traffic data for cities, states, hotels, airports, and tourist attractions across the countries to understand how the pandemic impacted – and continues to impact – these critical industries.
Below is a taste of our findings. The full report can be downloaded here.
Domestic Tourism Rises Across All States
For this whitepaper, we supplemented our usual data streams with data from Placer.ai’s free COVID Recovery Dashboard, which measures retail and domestic tourism visits across every state, county, city, and zip code in the United States. The data shows that despite rising COVID concerns, domestic tourism visits (visits by individuals living more than 50 miles away from the visited area) increased across all states in July when compared to July 2019, and the visit growth remained positive throughout August.