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JACKSONVILLE
Record & Observer February 2020
HOTELS & HOSPITALITY JACKSONVILLE
77.9%
Record & Observer THE
COVID Record & Observer CRASH & THE Record & Observer RALLY
February
67.5%
JACKSONVILLE
Photo by Max Marbut
Visit Jacksonville President and CEO Michael Corrigan and Director of Sales and Services Jeanne Bothwell in the Downtown visitor center at 100 N. Laura St. They are working to boost hotel occupancy in Duval County.
JACKSONVILLE
July
March 2020
54.6%
55.8%
It was 76.2% in 2019.
December
Jacksonville’s hospitality industry is recovering faster and stronger than other markets.
Hotel occupancy in Duval When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, hotel occupancy plummeted in Duval County.
43.6%
April 2020
30.2%
By comparison, occupancy was 77.8% in 2019.
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It was 62.6% in 2019.
INSIDE
BY MAX MARBUT
May
52.5%
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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f Jacksonville’s hospitality industry was a person, the coronavirus would have put the patient in intensive care on life support just days after the pandemic began in March 2020. According to data provided by Visit Jacksonville, the convention and visitors bureau for Jacksonville and the Beaches, hotel occupancy dropped from nearly 80% of rooms booked in February 2020 to barely more than 30% in April, the first full month of the pandemic shutdown. When the bottom fell out of demand for hotel rooms, the average daily rate for the 18,717 hotel rooms at 164 properties in Duval County also suffered, declining from $100.94 in February to $65.05 in April.
■ Fred Pozin, owner and manager of the Ramada by Wyndham Jacksonville Hotel and Conference Center, on surviving the pandemic. Page 4 ■ The top 10 biggest hotels in Duval and what’s in the pipeline. Page 5 ■ Move to delivery, takeout boosted Firehouse Subs. Page 6
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