Half full or half empty, hotels slowly recovering
Downtown Memphis hotels like The Westin have been hard-hit during the COVID-19 pandemic by lack of business travel and convention and meeting business, with only a third of rooms occupied over the normally busy summer months. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Memphis hotel occupancy hit bottom at 31% in April before rebounding, while Downtown’s low point was 14.7% occupied in April, STR found.
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Metropolitan Memphis Hotel Lodging Association CBRE Hotel Research STR The Peabody Doug BrowneWayne Risher
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