Occupancy figures statewide last month averaged 49.6 percent, up solidly from 44.4 percent in November 2009, according to the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Lodging Report. That marks the ninth consecutive month in which Utah hotels filled more rooms nightly than in the same month a year ago.
Hotels in Salt Lake County, location of almost half the state’s inventory of rooms, had a 56.4 percent occupancy mark in November. That was 7.2 percent better than a year earlier, more than offsetting a slight increase in vacancies at county hotels in October. Salt Lake Tribune
