by Calculated Risk on 9/29/2022 02:18:00 PM

Note: I like using Las Vegas as a measure of recovery for both leisure (visitors) and business (conventions).

From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: August 2022 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics

August visitation reached nearly 3.2M visitors for the month, up +6.4% YoY and ‐10.9% below the August 2019 volume.

Overall hotel occupancy reached 76.8%, +4.0 pts ahead of last August but down ‐10.9 pts vs. August 2019. Surpassing 90% for the sixth straight month, Weekend occupancy reached 90.1% (up +3.0 pts YoY but down ‐5.1 pts vs. August 2019), while Midweek occupancy came in at 72.2% (up +4.4 pts YoY but down ‐11.9 pts vs. August 2019).

The trend of strong ADR continued as August ADR exceeded $148, +5.5% ahead of last August and 22.4% above August 2019 while RevPAR neared $114 for the month, +11.3% YoY and +7.2% over August 2019.

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The first graph shows visitor traffic for 2019 (dark blue), 2020 (light blue), 2021 (yellow) and 2022 (red)

Visitor traffic was down 10.9% compared to the same month in 2019.

Visitor traffic was up 6.4% compared to last August.

The second graph shows convention traffic.

Convention traffic was down 38.2% compared to August 2019.

Note: There was almost no convention traffic from April 2020 through May 2021.