9 & 10 News February 11, 2021 The Manistee County Visitors Bureau released a report Thursday that measures the local tourism and lodging sales from 2019 to 2020. “We didn’t even know if we were going to have a business opening in 2020,” says Tim Riley, a property manager at Century 21 in Manistee. Riley manages more than 55 vacation rentals in Manistee County. He says, at the beginning of the pandemic he was concerned that they wouldn’t have a tourism season. “It was really the uncertainty of the whole thing of not knowing whether we were even going to be able to open,” says Riley. It wasn’t until mid-June that the things started looking up.