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Article: San Diego makes it six as travelers pour into town: officials unsure of fall numbers as summer season nears end.(national hotel occupancy statistics)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- August 25, 2003
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Pent-up demand for travel has turned out to be a silver lining around the clouds that hovered over San Diego's lodging industry earlier this year.
Since the June gloom cleared, the industry has been on a roll.
For six consecutive weeks, San Diego County has led the nation in hotel occupancy. During the week ended Aug. 16--the latest information available--San Diego hotels had an occupancy rate of 88.9 percent, up 4.3 percent compared to the like week last year, and the highest in the country, according to Smith Travel Research. The Hendersonville, Tenn. firm independently tracks the top hotel markets across the country.
Honolulu ran a close ...