What Happens to Washington D.C. Tourism During an Election Year?
Photo Credit: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Flickr / Richard Ricciardi
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All eyes will be on the American presidential campaign come 2020, but despite all the attention on the nation's capital, the effect that an election year has on tourism in Washington D.C. isn't so straightforward.
Ready or not, an American election year is upon us. And even though it feels like the U.S. race has been trundling along for some time, the months before voting day are when the action kicks into overdrive.
Nowhere will that have a larger effect than in the nation's capital, where the flow of visitors is partly dependent on the political happenings. Recently, during Marriott's third quarter earnings call, CEO Arne Sorenson spoke candidly about the effect an election year has on Marriott's properties in D.C.
"A presidential election year is not a great year for Washington D.C. ... because, by and large, the politicians are out on the hustings as opposed to hanging out in Washington. And so we ob
