Kalamazoo Gazette: Hotel room stays rose during 2012
A survey of the number of hotel rooms sold (occupied overnight) in Kalamazoo County during 2012 indicates sales were up 2.9 percent from calendar year 2011, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette. Room taxes collected during the year were up 2.4 percent, said Greg Ayers, president of Discover Kalamazoo, the area’s convention and visitors organization.
Excerpt: “One of the things that was reported last year is we had more rooms occupied — sold — than at any other time in the history of Kalamazoo County,” Ayers said. That represents more than 16,000 additional room nights sold in 2012 than in 2011. Visitors paid for a total of about 578,000 room nights in 2012, he said.
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Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
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