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Chicago Sets Tourism Records

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Don Welsh, President and CEO of Choose Chicago, today announced that Chicago set multiple tourism records for the summer 2014 travel season. For the first time, Chicago saw records across all key performance indicators — demand, occupancy, supply, average daily rate, revenue per available room and overall revenue. Chicago’s record hotel performance during the peak tourism season of May – August shows that the City is on pace to achieve Mayor Emanuel’s goal of 55 million visitors a year by the year 2020 and create 30,000 additional jobs. [Read more…]