{"id":3956022,"date":"2024-03-28T15:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T22:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/?p=3956022"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T22:48:18","slug":"seattle-tourism-dollars-break-records-following-all-star-week-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3956022\/seattle-tourism-dollars-break-records-following-all-star-week-taylor-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle tourism dollars break records following All-Star Week, Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a record-setting year for dollars flowing into Seattle from tourists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visitseattle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit Seattle<\/a> said tourists spent $8.2 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we think of visitors&#8217; spending, we think primarily of big-box hotels, airlines, and things like that, but really, 80% of the industry is small businesses,&#8221; President and CEO of Visit Seattle, Tammy Canavan, told KIRO Newsradio.<\/p>\n<p>She said those kinds of numbers are worth celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a lot of money. And I think that sometimes we forget just how much that is,&#8221; Canavan explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a big number that it sort of passes over your head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunshine and butterflies:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3955993\/sunshine-and-butterflies-baseballs-opening-day\/\">Baseball\u2019s Opening Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canavan explained that $787 million is spent on state and local taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that offsets each household in King County by a significant amount, $800 and something dollars. The economic benefit is really important,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release from Visit Seattle, the preliminary data indicated:<br \/>\n\u2022 A total of 37.8 million visitors came to Seattle and King County in 2023, a 9% increase from 2022 reaching 90.2% of 2019 levels.<br \/>\n\u2022 Visitors spent $8.2 billion in Seattle and King County in 2023, a 12.8% increase from 2022 and a 0.7% increase from 2019.<br \/>\n\u2022 Visitors paid $787 million in state and local taxes in 2023, a 12.5% increase from 2022 reaching 94.0% of 2019 levels. That amounts to a tax offset of $859 per household in King County in 2023, up from $775 in 2022 and steadily approaching the $965 peak of 2019.<br \/>\n\u2022 Tourism supported 65,486 jobs in Seattle and King County in 2023, a 7.7% increase from 2022 reaching 81.5% of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n<p>During MLB All-Star Week (July 7-11), downtown hotel occupancies were about 95%. Downtown hotel revenues on those days were around $5.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Records were broken the weekend of July 21-23. Seattle hosted a combination of marquee events, including two Taylor Swift concerts, a Mariners home series versus the Blue Jays, six cruise ships, two sizable conventions, the Bite of Seattle food festival and Capitol Hill Block Party.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown hotel revenues peaked for the year on Saturday, July 22 at $7.4 million, setting a new record for the city with a $2 million increase over the record Seattle set on June 17.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KIRO Newsradio:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3955971\/kiro-newsradio-anchors-receive-gracie-awards-outstanding-work\/\">Anchors receive Gracie Awards for outstanding work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Seattle metro region is special, and it&#8217;s growing. We&#8217;re taking action so it thrives for residents and visitors alike,&#8221; said King County Executive Dow Constantine.<\/p>\n<p>Canavan said we could see more records broken over the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next big huge mega-event will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/fifaplus\/en\/tournaments\/mens\/worldcup\/canadamexicousa2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> in 2026,&#8221; Canavan said. &#8220;That will be like nothing we&#8217;ve ever experienced before and won&#8217;t again unless they come back. It&#8217;s like the equivalent of ten Super Bowls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>You can read more of Micki Gamez\u2019s stories <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/author\/mgamez\/\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>. Follow Micki on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnAirMichelle\"><em>X, formerly known as Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>, or <\/em><a href=\"mailto:mgamez@bonneville.com\"><em>email her here<\/em><\/a><em>.\u202f<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bill Kaczaraba is a content editor at MyNorthwest. You can read his stories <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/author\/bkaczaraba\/\">here<\/a>. Follow Bill on X, formerly known as Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillKaczaraba\">here<\/a> and email him <a href=\"mailto:bkaczaraba@bonneville.com\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":25,"protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":3912713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[34,39],"tags":[66701],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tourists pour record-breaking numbers in Seattle economy last year<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was a record-setting year for dollars flowing into Seattle from tourists. 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