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New York City's tourism is down two thirds as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 23 million people still visited the city in 2020, and experts say it won't recover until 2024.
Last year, 66 million people visited New York City, almost three times as many as this year. NYC & Co, a city tourism agency, projects that by the end of the year, 23 million will have visited.
In 2017, 65 million tourists generated $44.2billion in revenue for the city and while final total numbers are not clear for 2018 and 2019, 2019 set a record.
But now, tourism is not likely to recover until 2024, when the...
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Review: Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City

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I was staying in New York City with my daughter. We arrived at Penn Station, right across the street from Hotel Pennsylvania, at 9:30 a.m. - way too early to check in. But we had some luggage we didn't want to carry around with us, so we stopped at the hotel to leave it.
We stood in a line of guests checking out and approached the front desk to inquire about the earliest check-in time and if we could leave our bags. The front desk clerk informed us the earliest we could check in was 1 p.m., and we could leave our bags in the luggage room downstairs - for a fee of $5 per bag. So we...
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