U.S. Hotels Show a Resilience to Omicron Especially on Christmas Day
Photo Credit: Christmas tree in modern hotel during Christmas Day. U.S. hotels held their own with occupancy rates through the holiday week. Getty Images / Eugeneonline
Skift Take
In a period of Omicron, these occupancy rates are short of a Christmas miracle, but the industry should still take them as a win given the disruptions the variant wrought.
The Omicron took its biggest hit on hotels in New York City during the holiday week, but the rest of the country showed resilience as occupancy rates did not crater because of the fast-spreading variant.
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