Mountain resorts headed for another lodging record

By scott miller

DENVER — Along with a steady march toward a fifth consecutive record for aggregated lodging occupancy and revenues at western mountain resorts this summer, the 19 destinations participating in the Denver-based DestiMetrics program are also approaching occupancy figures that rival winter levels. Those destinations include Vail and Beaver Creek.“Occupancy rates for summer 2015 reached 92.5 percent of occupancy rates for the winter of 2015-’16, indicating nearly identical room utilization between the two seasons,” said Tom Foley, operations director for DestiMetrics. “As we track occupancy figures that are likely to set another record in the summer of 2016, we’ll look for …

Source:: Vail Daily Feed