When will business travel in Charlotte bounce back?
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Business travel is still way down in the Charlotte area.
As the omicron variant surges across the U.S., corporate employees are still taking Zoom calls from their living rooms. Hotels are much quieter now during the weekdays than they were back in 2019.
By the numbers: Pre-pandemic, at least 60% of hotel room revenue was driven by corporate business, estimates Mohammad Jenatian, head of the Greater Charlotte Hospitality & Tourism Alliance. Now, Jenatian estimates that revenue to be somewhere in the 30% range.
- Uptown hotel performance data from November 2021 shows weekday revenue was down 34%