May 27, 2021
Tourists and shoppers are returning to downtown San Antonio after a pandemic-dampened year. The number of new coronavirus cases is declining as the number of people vaccinated increases. Downtown businesses say they re expecting a busy and profitable summer season. Hospitality is a 15-billion-dollar industry in San Antonio, and hotels and conventions took a beating last year. Richard Oliver with Visit SA says hotel occupancy in 2020 hit a low of 20%. He says hotels expect to hit 60-percent for Memorial Day Weekend.
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SAN ANTONIO – The visitor and tourism industry, hobbled by the pandemic, saw a welcomed increase in the hotel occupancy rate in March thanks to NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament and spring break.
Richard Oliver, a spokesperson for Visit San Antonio, said 65% of the city’s hotel rooms were booked in March, compared to only 15% at the most in March 2020.
Although it’s not quite like the 80% occupancy rate San Antonio has seen during spring breaks in the past, Oliver said, “It really encourages us now as we look forward and are bullish about the summer period.”
May 4, 2021
San Antonio s tourism and hospitality industry is anticipating good business in the months ahead. Richard Oliver with Visit San Antonio says 65-percent of the city s hotel rooms were booked in March for spring break and the NCAA Women s Basketball Tournament. San Antonio usually sees about 80-percent occupancy during spring break, but in 2020 it was more like 15%. Oliver says the summer months will tell the story about what kind of condition the city s tourism and hospitality industry is in.
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