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Orlando hotel occupancy rate shows improvement during pandemic

ORLANDO, Fla. — Editor’s note: This story is available as a result of a content partnership between WFTV and the Orlando Business Journal.

Visitation is clearly down in Orlando due to the Covid-19 virus, but activity is picking up a bit for the region's hotels.

The region’s average hotel occupancy rate has been on a steady climb — more than 12 weeks in a row – to 29.3% for the week ending July 4, said data from STR LLC, a Hendersonville, Tennessee-based hotel and data firm. That is up from 12.3% for the week ending April 11 — the lowest since the pandemic struck Central Florida in March.

However, while the current average occupancy rate is improved, it’s a far cry from March, when the average occupancy rate was 76.7% as the region headed into what typically is the Spring Break rush.

Click here to read Richard Bilbao’s complete story on the Orlando Business Journal’s website.