1994 Illinois Tourism FactSheets

Total person days in Illinois for Quarter One 1994 (January – March) were up by 3.8 percent over this period in 1993 due to an increase in person days for business. Leisure person days remained flat compared to the same time period in 1993.

Person trips to the Chicago ADI in Quarter One were down for both leisure and business travelers, while leisure trips to the Illinois (less Chicago) area increased.

In Quarter Two 1994 (April – June), total person trips increased by 12 percent over this period in 1993, primarily due to an 18 percent increase in leisure trips during this period.

In 1994, total domestic person trips to Illinois increased 4 percent over 1993, from 73.1 million to 76.0 million, with the Chicago ADI experiencing a 14 percent increase.

Domestic leisure person trips showed a 10 percent increase in Illinois (from 45.8 million to 50.5 million), the Chicago ADI increased 17 percent, and the national growth for leisure was 3 percent.

Non-resident travel increased 13 percent.

Illinois hotel/motel tax receipts were $101,530,518, an increase of 6.09 percent over 1993.

Hotel/motel tax receipts for the calendar year through July 1994 were 2.0 percent higher than over the same time period in 1993.

Occupancy rates for Illinois and Chicago were 3.5 percent and 4.7 percent higher respectively through July 1994 than over the same time period in 1993.

By the year’s end, occupancy was 3.7 percent higher than in 1993, with an average occupancy rate of 67.3 percent. Chicago hotel/motel occupancy was up 4.8 percent for a yearly average rate of 70.1 percent, the highest rate since 1979.

Overall attendance through September 1994 at Illinois state historic sites was still slightly below 1993 attendance, primarily because sites such as Fort de Chaters were closed. The majority of sites showed an increase in attendance. By the end of the year, attendance was two percent higher than in 1993.