Occupancy rates for local hotel, motel and bed & breakfast rooms included in the monthly Rocky Mountain Lodging Report recorded their first percentage increase in more than two years last month.
After 30 straight months of declines in the average percentage of occupied rooms in Glenwood Springs on a month-by-month comparison, the number of rooms filled last month was 55.7 percent, according to the March report made to the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association last week.
That was up from a 52.8 percent average occupancy rate in March 2010, and 54.5 percent in March 2009.
It was still down from the more than 70 percent occupancy rate for March posted during the three previous years, according to the historical data included in the report.
The upward trend compared to last year was seen at mountain resorts throughout the Rocky Mountains, according to the most recent results released by the Mountain Travel Research Program (MTRiP).
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