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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 hospitality & leisure employment in every MSA. For questions about our data, or to request data, please contact [email protected]. Data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

How did local tourism industries recover in 2021? In this post, we look at employment in local hospitality & leisure industries in June 2021, compared to June 2020 (the depths of the pandemic).

The good news: employment in hospitality & leisure grew 22% in the average metro area over this period. The bad news: Some MSAs were not as successful as others.

At the bottom of this page, find a sortable table of 380 U.S. MSAs, and how their tourism-related employment changed between June 2020 and June 2021. But first, a couple highlights:

Which MSAs saw the most growth in hospitality & leisure employment?

Some MSAs have not recovered:

Below, find a sortable table of 380 U.S. MSAs, and how their tourism-related employment changed between June 2020 and June 2021.