While visitation from foreign countries hasn't fully rebounded, leisure travelers and conventioneers are helping boost the county's tourism economy.
More than three years after COVID-19 decimated the tourism industry, San Diego has come roaring back, with visitor spending during the last fiscal year easily eclipsing pre-pandemic levels by nearly $3 billion.
7 million rooms sold during the year before the pandemic arrived. At the same time, though, there were 1.4 million fewer overnight visitors compared to 2019, and yet, spending on hotels, restaurants, transportation and shopping soared. That's due in part to exponentially higher costs, but visitors are also staying here longer, Kapich explained. In 2019, the average length of stay was three nights, compared to four last year.
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