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The tourism and hospitality industry is one of the major sectors in San Antonio’s economy next to Health, Medical and Bioscience, Military, Manufacturing and Aerospace. |
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The annual economic impact of Tourism is well over $11 billion. |
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The estimated annual Tax revenues from this industry for San Antonio is now over $154 million (2008). This includes city sales tax and hotel occupancy taxes and other revenues produced by the industry for the City of San Antonio. When you add other government entities such as school districts, Bexar County, etc. this amount of yearly revenues grows to $286 million per year. The San Antonio Tourism Council conducts economic impact research every two years. |
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1 in 8 employed San Antonians works in the tourism and hospitality industry. The workforce now exceeds over 106,311 citizens. |
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There are over 200 hotels in the San Antonio area and well over 33,000 hotel rooms with 12,000 of those hotel rooms in the downtown area and near the Convention Center. |
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Each year, millions of leisure visitors come to San Antonio to shop, play and enjoy the City's unique history and culture, In 2008, the City hosted over 20 million leisure visitors. More than half of these visitors (11.1 million) were overnight visitors. |
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In 2008, over 8 million passengers passed through the San Antonio International Airport. San Antonio has non stop service to over 38 destinations in the USA and Mexico. There are an average of 260 scheduled arrivals and departures daily for commercial passenger airlines. |
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The Convention Center hosted more than 300 events in 2008 with an estimated attendance of 724,000, generating rental revenues of $4.3 million and $17.7 million in catering sales. Convention delegates spent more than $416 million in San Antonio. |
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More than 25,000 runners participated in the inaugural San Antonio Rock 'n' Roll Marathon, while some 59,000 spectators lined the 26.1 mile race route. The event brought the city $1.4 million in new tax revenues. |
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The Hotel Motel Tax Fund augmented the City’s historic preservation and renovation efforts by more than $5 million. These funds are used to maintain and preserve the San Antonio River Walk, Market Square, the Tower of The Americas, La Villita, the Spanish Governor’s Palace, the Majestic and Empire Theaters, the Municipal Auditorium and the San Antonio Zoo for the enjoyment of visitors and local residents. |
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According to the Governor’s Office, San Antonio has five of the top 10 tourist attractions in Texas. The Alamo (1), the River Walk (2), SeaWorld San Antonio (3), Six Flags Fiesta Texas (8) and the San Antonio Zoo (9) |
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Fiscal Year (FY 2008), the Hotel Tax collection for the City of San Antonio exceeded $53 million of which $16 million went to operate the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau. |
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According to PKF, San Antonio continues to have the strongest Texas Hotel Occupancy between 2000-2007 by 75% in 2006 and beating out the competition of Austin, Houston, Fort Worth and Dallas. While the national trend among top 52 markets was 68.4% occupancy, San Antonio continues to excel in all areas and San Antonio’s Central Business District (CBD) reached a 76% in 2006 according to annual studies released by PKF. In addition, PKF reported that between 2005 and 2006, San Antonio also increased the Average Room Rates. |
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PKF reports the hotel occupancy for the entire City at 61.8% for the first 6 months of 2009 and the ADR Average Daily rate at $109.43. The highest occupancy months are June and July with March and April. The lowest hotel occupancy is normally December and January. |
