Originally Posted by cordelli

Yet it seems that just last Tuesday the Mayor announced the hotel occupancy rate was the highest of any city in the country, tourism was on track to break the previous visitors per year of 48.8 million visitors with over 50 million visitors this year.

Last year, New York City welcomed a record 48.8 million visitors who collectively spent $31 billion. The City is on track to reach a record number of visitors this year. Room rates are steadily increasing, and occupancy remained at close to 85 percent, the highest in the nation.

I'm sure he's just lying to keep everybody happy, and it's why rates for the holidays are double or triple what they normally are, and why so many hotels are sold out, because occupancy is so low, at the highest in the nation, that many hotels are closing for the holidays and giving their employees the week off.

Sure.