by Calculated Risk on 3/30/2022 02:21:00 PM

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

Despite continued waning effects of the Omicron variant during the month, Las Vegas visitation exceeded 2.6M in February, 70% ahead of a year ago but down ‐18% vs. February 2019.

Overall hotel occupancy reached 69.3%, roughly 10 pts ahead of January, up 27.3 pts YoY and down 17.7 pts vs. February 2019. Weekend occupancy came in relatively strong at 87.5%, 24.7 pts ahead of the weekend levels of last February and only 4.4 pts below February 2019. Midweek occupancy still reflected a convention segment in recovery but reached 60.7%, well over the 32.1% level of last February (+28.6 pts) but down 23.9 pts vs. February 2019.

February 2022 ADR approached $150, surpassing both February 2021 (+52.5%) and February 2019 (+15.0%) while RevPAR reached $103.62 for the month, dramatically ahead of February 2021 (+151.7%) and down only 8.4% vs. February 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 18.0% compared to the same month in 2019.

Visitor was up 70% compared to last January.

The second graph shows convention traffic.

Convention traffic was down 41.4% compared to January 2019.

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