Leisure tourism up in San Diego

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — License plates from everywhere in the nation are mixing collectively on native freeways this Independence Day weekend.

The additional visitors could be a bit irritating for locals, however one native hospitality professional mentioned it is a plus for the tourism business.

“Benefit from the local weather [and] benefit from the individuals and bike using. Fairly actually, we’re on the point of go on bike rides and journey round,” mentioned Justin Jansen, a traveler.

Jansen is from Arizona.

He traveled to San Diego together with his household for the vacation weekend.

Leisure vacationers like him are a superb signal for the tourism business particularly following the pandemic, in response to Robert Rauch who has spent greater than 40 years within the hospitality business.

He mentioned what San Diegans are seeing probably the most are leisure vacationers.

Knowledge reveals San Diego ranked third in resort charges nationally for the week of June 25.

“We have held charge as a result of we’re a drive market. We do not depend on air journey though now we have fairly a little bit of it. The drive journey continues to be robust regardless of these loopy fuel costs,” defined Rauch.

Whereas Jansen selected to remain in an Airbnb relatively than a resort, he mentioned it was simpler to drive together with his household.

“Arizona is a little bit over 5 and a half-hour drive. Actually, it averages out to be about 100 bucks right here and 100 bucks there,” he mentioned.

Rauch mentioned he would not see fuel costs negatively impacting the leisure journey market until it hits $8.00 per gallon.

He additionally explains not all areas of the journey business are rebounding as shortly.

“Company or enterprise journey, that’s about 20 % from 2019 and group enterprise, whereas it’s nonetheless down over 50 % the tempo is absolutely robust,” mentioned Rauch.