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BY SHAHERYAR KHAN
City of Shenandoah gets 13th hotel
What we know
The new hotel began accepting reservations starting March 25, according to its website. Mayner said the hotel held its soft opening March 29-30. The Hampton Inn & Suites opening follows three other new hotels which opened in Shenandoah in 2021, according to previous reporting: • Aloft Hotel, 19391 David Memorial Drive • Hyatt House, 18645 Residence Drive • Even Hotel, 18850 David Memorial Drive
The city of Shenandoah is set to welcome its 13th hotel, Hampton Inn & Suites, at 18200 I-45 N. this spring alongside a continuing increase in the city’s hotel occupancy tax collections. During a Feb. 28 City Council meeting, John Mayner, director of Visit Shenandoah, the city’s convention and visitors bureau, reported a rise in revenue in the scal year 2022-23 compared to the previous year. Mayner said he believes the opening of the new hotel reects increasing demand for accommodations in the area. Hotel occupancy tax revenue funds the city’s tourism eorts, Mayner said. The city generated $1.85 million in hotel occupancy tax collections in FY 2022-23, Mayner said at the city council meeting. In addition, the city generated $2.1 million in sales tax receipts from travel-related
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purchases in 2022, of which 95.3% were from visitors, Mayner said. “When you’re talking about COVID[-19] and 2020, there’s the bottom of the barrel ... and [since] then it’s just been pretty much an upward trajectory,” Mayner said.
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