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Note: I like using Las Vegas as a measure of recovery for both leisure (visitors) and business (conventions). Vegas is Back!
From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: March 2023 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics
Benefitting from a mix of headliners and events from NASCAR to Taylor Swift
to several college basketball tournaments, paired with a robust convention
month that included the triennial CONEXPO‐CON/AGG tradeshow and its
140k+ attendees, Las Vegas visitation neared 3.7M in Mar 2023, up +9.6% YoY
and nearly matching Mar 2019.
Overall hotel occupancy exceeded 88% for the month, +7.7 pts YoY. Achieving
impressive levels by both pre and post‐pandemic standards, Weekend
occupancy reached 94.5% for the month (+2.4 pts YoY) while conventions
helped propel Midweek occupancy to 85.8%, +9.2 pts YoY.
Overall ADR exceeded $213, breaking the record from just a few months ago
(Oct 2022, $208) and surpassing Mar 2022 and Mar 2019 by +30.7% and
+59.2%, respectively. RevPAR also broke records, reaching $188, +43.2% YoY
and +53.6% over Mar 2019
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The first graph shows visitor traffic for 2019 (Black), 2020 (light blue), 2021 (purple), 2022 (orange), and 2023 (red).
Visitor traffic was down 1.1% compared to the same month in 2019.
Convention traffic was up 39.6% compared to March 2019, and up 56.0% compared to March 2022.
Note: There was almost no convention traffic from April 2020 through May 2021.
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