San Francisco’s hotels are being lifted by a strong resurgence in convention bookings in 2025, but a growing downturn in international travel to the U.S is also impacting the emerging recovery of the city’s lodging sector.
The San Francisco Travel Association (SF Travel), the city’s destination marketing organization, projected last week that Moscone-related room nights will total nearly 670,000 this year, driven by 32 major events that are being held at the downtown convention center.
That’s a 70% increase over last year’s tally of about 400,000, a cratering that could muster only half of the pre-pandemic peak of 800,000 as several major conferences bailed out of events at Moscone due to safety concerns in the downtown neighborhood.
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