0:57 We re planning for recovery and we re planning for a safe recovery, CVB President and CEO Julie Calvert tells WVXU. Our goal is to restore confidence in travel, and to do that we have to show our visitors what we are doing to mitigate their safety, whether they re coming here for a meeting or they re coming here for a leisure visit.
Tourism was a $5 billion industry prior to the pandemic, accounting for more than 80,000 Tri-State jobs. In stark contrast, Cincinnati hosted just one convention after the shutdowns began. In 2020, 166 groups canceled events, taking with them 132,000 hotel room nights, 173,000 attendees, and a total economic impact loss of $114 million.