CivMetrics collects key travel and tourism data for the largest cities in the United States. We’re posting some of our insights here. In this installment, we look at Google traffic for hotels in large cities. For questions about our data, or to request data, please contact EBallantine@CivMetrics.com. Data is from Google Trends.
One way to measure tourism interest in a city: the number of people searching for that city’s hotels on Google. At the bottom of this page, find a sortable table of the top 100 U.S. cities, and how Google search traffic for hotels has changed over the same periods in 2020 and 2019. But first, a couple highlights:
Which cities have seen the largest decline in hotel-related Google traffic since Dec 2019?
Of the top 100 cities, only four cities have seen an increase in Google traffic since 2019. Here are the 10 cities with the smallest declines (and in some cases, largest increases):
Below, find a sortable table of the top 100 U.S. cities, and how Google search traffic for hotels has changed over the same periods in 2020 and 2019.
