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With travel to Chautauqua County expected to pick up, both attractions and lodging sites prepare for the influx of people to return in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two of those places are the Chautauqua Institution and the Chautauqua Harbor Hotel in Celoron.
For the hotel and its General Manager Henry Sirois, it was an interesting year of bookings. At the Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce Tuesday Talks series, Sirois said that interest in the hotel is increasing as more people discover it while booking travel.
“It’s been an interesting year for the Hotel,” Sirois said. ” We’re trying to juggle what business is coming into the hotel. Surprisingly, we had sold out nights on weekends, which was completely unexpected but nice to see that people are finally knowing the hotel is here. Oftentimes, we would get comments asking where the hotel is and how long it has been here.”