We'll take a look mostly now at the rebound of tourism in New York City, a strong rebound

post-pandemic, but with some interesting and perhaps threatening holes.

Visitors have been flocking to the U.S. Open and Queens, contributing to record attendance.

That generates so much tourism income outside the Tennis Center.

While jobs in hotels and restaurants have seen a boost of almost 10 percent in the past

year, hotel occupancy has seen a significant increase from last year and room rates have

surpassed pre-pandemic levels, that's occupancy rates.

Despite these mostly positive developments, the city probably won't surpass its 2019

record of 66.6 million visitors, and investors are uncertain about the future.

One reason, tourism from one really, really big country has not rebounded, with us now

to delve into the factors driving the rebound and the challenges that lie ahead for the

tourism industry, one of New York's biggest and most important, is Greg David, contributor,

covering fiscal and economic issues for the news organization, the city, as well as

director of the business and economics reporting program at the Graduate School of Journalism

at CUNY.

Hi Greg, always good to have you, welcome back to the show.

Thank you very much, always good to be back.

And can I actually take a minute with you and make a transition from the last segment,

since you look at these things constantly too and get your quick take on migrationomics

in New York City, Adam saying that the current pace of things will, quote, destroy the city

largely because of $12 billion in anticipated deficits over the next three years.

But at the same time, I mentioned in the last segment, there was a crane story earlier

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