Article: North County hotels suffer biggest drop in occupancy: experts blame recession, supply, lack of industry. (north San Diego County, California) (Special Report: North County)

North County hotels suffer biggest drop in occupancy

Experts blame recession, supply, lack of industry

North County hotel occupancy rates are going south.

While occupancies at hotels throughout the county have dropped roughly 1.5 percent so far this year, the North County coastal rate has fallen off 16 percent.

"It is probably the poorest performing market area in San Diego," said Scott Smith, manager of the local office of accounting firm Pannell Kerr Forster.

Lodging experts blame the recession, an oversupply of hotels and a travel slowdown for the drop in business. And while hotels countywide suffer the same ailments, the ...

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