Tag: Doug Price
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Hotel building boom underway in Colorado Springs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One of the Colorado Springs area’s biggest waves of hotel construction in the last quarter century will add three-dozen new properties and more than 4,100 rooms over the next two years, including a high-profile downtown hotel set to open this week. A healthy economy and…
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Tourism outlook: Pent-up travel demand will boost visitor numbers in the Pikes Peak region
Colorado Springs tourism leaders are optimistic that visitors will return to the Pikes Peak region in near-record numbers as the two-year-old COVID-19 pandemic fades from view. Officials believe Americans are ready to take vacations after two years of trying to avoid infection, and they are spending heavily to bring those visitors to the region. Visit…
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Colorado Springs hotels rebound, but not quite to pre-COVID level
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Colorado Springs hotels saw solid occupancy in March, but the occupancy rate was shy of pre-pandemic levels. The 64.5% occupancy rate in March was a big improvement from the 54.9% level reached in March 2021, and was the third-highest level for that month in 21 years, according to the Rocky Mountain Lodging Report. Last month’s occupancy…
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Space Symposium returning to full size for first time in 3 years this week, ‘bigger and better than ever’
The biggest convention held annually in Colorado Springs returns this week to The Broadmoor, with the Space Symposium expected to draw more than 10,000 people to the four-day event. The symposium resumed in August 2021 after a 2½-year absence triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic with a hybrid online and in-person event that attracted about two-thirds…
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Colorado Springs hotel occupancy hits pre-pandemic level
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For the first time since COVID-19 spread into the state, the occupancy rate at Colorado Springs hotels has reached pre-pandemic levels. Colorado Springs hotels continue recovery from pandemic in October Local hotels sold 56.8% of their rooms last month, the same as November 2019 and up from 46.3% in November 2020, according to the Rocky…
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Colorado Springs hotels continue recovery from pandemic in October
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs hotels continued a gradual recovery in October from the COVID-19 pandemic, but still fell well short of the booming occupancy levels reached before the outbreak. Occupancy rates in local hotels averaged 68.6% last month, up from 63.9% a year earlier but behind the…
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Colorado Springs hotels’ recovery still shy of pre-pandemic levels
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The Colorado Springs hotel industry continued in September to recover from the economic punch packed by the pandemic, though the city’s occupancy rate did fall slightly from August, according to the Rocky Mountain Lodging Report. Local hotels filled 74.2% of their rooms last month. That was down from 75.8% in August but still well ahead…
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Despite pandemic, Colorado Springs tourism season ‘historic’
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The Pikes Peak region’s tourism industry bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic in a big way this summer, posting numbers one tourism industry executive called “historic.” Doug Price, CEO of Visit Colorado Springs, said you can credit the March arrival of Southwest Airlines at the Colorado Springs Airport for boosting visitor numbers to historic levels.…
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Colorado Springs hotels continue strong summer performance
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Good times continued to roll for Colorado Springs hotels as the occupancy rate in July remained nearly as strong as June and the average room rate surged to a record, according to the Rocky Mountain Lodging Report. The 85% occupancy rate was down only slightly…