Local businesses that rely on summer weather and tourists are preparing for the fall and winter months ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur business is almost like 50% in the summertime. Maybe sometimes a little more,\u201d said Mike Soltan who is the owner of Mission Beach restaurant Kojack\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Tourists and their purchases help fuel many businesses in San Diego.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say that or a little over $100 per day,\u201d said Austin who is visiting San Diego.<\/p>\n
The tourism industry is expecting a downturn in 2025, and that is causing some concern.<\/p>\n
The anticipated slowdown comes after positive data<\/a> in Fiscal Year 2024, when 32 million people visited San Diego with a total economic impact of $14.8 billion, according to the San Diego Tourism Authority. Experts say that 2 million more people visited San Diego than the prior year.<\/p>\n The summer months are key for many local businesses so they will be calculating the revenue they generated in the summer of 2025<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s kind of seasonal down here but the rest of the year is like a roller coaster up and down,\u201d Soltan said.<\/p>\n Local leaders and business owners are looking toward attracting more visitors in the future. The San Diego Tourism Authority is looking toward building upon connections with other cities ahead of events like the\u00a0World Cup<\/a> and the 2028 Olympics<\/a>\u00a0in the hopes of attracting tourists who go to those events to come to San Diego as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local businesses that rely on summer weather and tourists are preparing for the fall and winter months ahead.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":245494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-245493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115246061626939934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}