Rob Boyd and Clemy Srour were backyard neighbours in 2013. After the fatal bus-train collision scarred their Ottawa suburb, nothing for either man would be the same.
During the week of Labor Day, U.S. hotel occupancy declined 1.2 percentage points (ppts) year over year to 60.3%. The decrease was generally in line with our expectations given the normalization of travel. As compared to 2019, the occupancy difference was a scant 0.5ppts. This was one of only five weeks this year when the occupancy difference was within one percentage point of the 2019 comparable.