Tag: Doug Price
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Hotel building boom underway in Colorado Springs
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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Colorado Springs hotels continue recovery from pandemic in October
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 continue strong summer performance
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…
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Colorado Springs hotel occupancy increases for first time in 16 months
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs hotels sold more rooms than a year earlier last month for the first time in 16 months, but only because the COVID-19 pandemic had already triggered many convention cancellations in March 2020. The 53.9% occupancy rate in March was the highest since October…
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Colorado Springs hotel occupancy continues decline amid pandemic
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save No spectators at the President’s Day hockey tournament in Colorado Springs meant plenty of available rooms in local hotels. As a result, occupancy levels last month fell to the lowest level for February in 30 years. The 45% occupancy rate for Colorado Springs hotels in…
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Colorado Springs hotel occupancy falls to lowest level since at least 1986
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Last year was the most difficult year for Colorado Springs hotels and those across the state since at least 1986 as the COVID-19 pandemic hammered the travel industry, according to the Rocky Mountain Lodging Report. Local hotels filled just half of their rooms in 2020…
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Colorado Springs hotels struggling amid tighter COVID-related restrictions
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There will be plenty of room at the inn this Christmas. Colorado Springs hotels are preparing for a dismal holiday and winter season as COVID-19 cases surge nationwide, throughout the state and across the Pikes Peak region. Reservations and meeting bookings for December have nearly…