{"id":2492,"date":"2010-02-06T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2010-02-06T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:21:10","slug":"tourism-in-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/tourism-in-lee-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism in Lee County continued to lag in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lee-County.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2493\" title=\"Tourism in Lee County continued to lag in 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lee-County-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism in Lee County continued to lag in 2009\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Because of the economic recession and an oversupply of rooms, neither years were stellar for the area&#8217;s lifeblood tourism and hospitality trades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Industry-wide rate discounting meant &#8220;we had to sell more rooms to maintain the same revenue. I think everybody&#8217;s going through that,&#8221; said Danny Adams, sales and marketing director at the Holiday in on Sanibel Island.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates presented Friday to the county Tourist Development Council showed just over 4.7 million visitors traveled here in the last calendar year. That&#8217;s 0.9 percent fewer than in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The silver lining: Visitors staying in paid lodgings in 2009 increased by 8.9 percent year-over-year. Meanwhile, visitors staying with friends and relatives declined 8.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The guest uptick at commercial accommodations &#8220;is a good sign,&#8221; said Tamara Pigott, interim director of the county Visitor &amp; Convention Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Visitor spending, though, was down 10.3 percent in 2009 compared with 2008, according to estimates from bureau consultants.<\/p>\n<p>Average daily rate for all kinds of lodgings in December, for example, was $106.17, down from $119.27 in December 2008.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the economic recession and an oversupply of rooms, neither years were stellar for the area&#8217;s lifeblood tourism and hospitality trades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}