Downtown Seattle visitor traffic inches toward 2019 levels
The number of visitors to downtown Seattle last month topped 3 million people, hitting 93% of the nearly 3.3 million who visited in July 2019.
Office worker weekday foot traffic, meanwhile, remains above 50% of 2019 levels, but still was at 55% in July, the same rate as the month before – despite Amazon's order to employees to be back on campus at least three days a week.
The Downtown Seattle Association on Friday posted these and other July data points on its recovery dashboard.
Hotel room demand equaled of 99% of July 2019's level and dipped from June's demand, despite Seattle hosting the MLB All-Star Game festivities and two Taylor Swift concerts over two weeks in the middle of July.
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