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With the annual U.S. travel peak behind us, hotel demand and occupancy began to trend down—which is normal. For the week ending 30 July 2022 (week 31), however, the decrease in demand was much lower than in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In those years, demand fell by more than one million room nights week over week (WoW). This week, demand fell by only 316,000 room nights WoW, resulting in U.S. occupancy of 71.9%.
U.S. hotel occupancy fell 4.9 percentage points from the previous week and came in at 67.3% for 26 June-2 July (week 27). While that might seem alarming, it is important to note this type of decline is normal for the Fourth of July holiday. Since 2000, the Fourth of July or the holiday observance (federal holiday) has fallen on a Monday seven times, including last year and in 2016. In each case, occupancy in the week before the holiday fell by more than four percentage points with most of the losses beginning on Wednesday and continuing into the weekend.
This moment? >> reporter: this is about following a money trail. trying to figure out who funded. who helped make that plot in new york city and times square happen. at this point in time no particular danger in the boston area or maine. they are following up the leads. megyn: do they have anything more between these two men that came from the massachusetts area, the boston area and faisal shahzad other than this money? money was funneled and they don't know whether it was knowingly funneled to support terror. >> reporter: that's what they are looking into. this was a coordinated effort. they ...
They waor down there a few days ago for about three full days and during that time there were six suicide attacks and several political assassinations. kandahar is an area that is very, very tense, there is limited afghan control and a big operation of both u.s. and afghan forces will try to bring in the afghan government. you talk to many people there and they view the government as corrupt. they simply want something other than the taliban and something other than the afghan government. what general mcchrystal has devised is to try to bring in new cops, cops that are well-trained and to brin...