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For Niagara Falls tourism, 2020 was as bad as it has ever been.
With seasonal attractions closed for weeks during the peak business season, capacity limited and many people unwilling to travel, the Covid-19 pandemic delivered a body blow to the city s tourism-based economy.
But as bad as it was, things got a little better as summer wore on, and there are prospects that 2021 might be a decent year, according to John H. Percy Jr., president of Destination Niagara USA, Niagara County s official tourism promotion agency.
The figures for this year are grim.
Percy said Friday that his agency s 2020 revenues from the bed tax on hotel and motel bills probably will be down 60% from the $2.5 million that Destination Niagara collected in 2019.