by Calculated Risk on 10/31/2023 02:44:00 PM
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Las Vegas September 2023: Visitor Traffic Down Slightly YoY; Convention Traffic Up 9%
From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: August 2023 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics
Las Vegas hosted more than 3.3M visitors in September, slightly behind (‐0.5%) last September while est. convention attendance for the month was up 9.5%, supported in part by the PACK Expo tradeshow (32k attendees) that rotated back into the destination since its last Vegas show in 2021.
Overall hotel occupancy reached 82.6% for the month (‐0.5 pts YoY) as Weekend occupancy came in at 89.0% (‐3.1 pts YoY), and Midweek occupancy reached 78.9%, surpassing last September by 0.3 pts.
ADR exceeded $201 for the month, +7.7% YoY while RevPAR exceeded $166, +7.0% YoY.
The first graph shows visitor traffic for 2019 (Black), 2020 (light blue), 2021 (purple), 2022 (orange), and 2023 (red).
Visitor traffic was down 0.5% compared to last September.
Visitor traffic was down 4.0% compared to the same month in 2019.
Convention traffic was up 9.5% compared to September 2022, and down 11.2% compared to September 2019.
Note: There was almost no convention traffic from April 2020 through May 2021.
Note: There was almost no convention traffic from April 2020 through May 2021.