The San Diego Tourism Authority’s Julie Coker said the region was doing better than other tourist destinations in California and the rest of the country, in part because of high COVID-19 vaccination rates.
Even so, the number of visitors in 2021 was still 32% lower than the number in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, Coker said.
All that spending helped bring back the tourism sector’s jobs. A total of 196,000 people were employed in the hospitality industry in 2021, close to the 210,000 people who held jobs in the sector before the pandemic. The region still got a major economic boost from those who did come to San Diego. Visitors spent $7.4 billion generating an estimated economic impact in the region of $12.6 billion.“Not just for the downtown businesses that serve the conventioneers,” said Todd Gloria, the mayor of San Diego. “And the tens of thousands of people who work at our hotels, who got their jobs back after the pandemic.
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