Fall Break and Homecoming Scheduling Provides Hotel Demand Opportunities Across the U.S.

STR | September 26, 2023

Analysis by Brannan Doyle School is now fully in session in the U.S., and upcoming fall schedules are the first opportunity this season for hoteliers to capitalize on an influx of traveling students and their families. More specifically, the hotel industry can plan on peak fall break demand during the first half of October 2023. Fall break, already STR’s thorough database of public school districts showed 11 September to be the latest K-12 start date of the year—except for those districts delayed due to contract disputes. Those starting during the second week of September were fringe cases as comparisons with a similar dat...