Economic Development Committee to Discuss Hotel Resort Zoning Proposal

The Dennis Economic Development Committee will be continuing its efforts to explore the Hotel Resort Zoning Proposal it has been working on for the past two years.  The next meeting will be held on Thursday November 19, 2009 at 9 am. The meeting will be held in the Downstairs Large Conference Room. The [...]

Condo/Hotel Survey Says

Over the past couple of months I have tried to gauge your interests in modifying the current hotel/motel zoning provisions related to interval ownership.  While these polls are clearly unscientific, they provide a sense of the visitors to this site.  The poll illustrated that 78% of those responding felt that some form of interval ownership [...]

Second Homes as Rentals – Something I Had Previously Pondered

Several weeks ago I commented on a Business Week article here.  At the time I was pondering what the impact of the economic crisis was going to have on our second home market.  I, quite honestly, had thought that there would either be a large jump in population as people pursued early retirement, or there [...]

What Is Happening to Our Hotel Stock In Dennis

I have now spent several posts discussing the 1997 and 2002 Economic Census data as it relates to the local economy, and, more specifically the hotel/tourism business in town.  In this post I will look at the trend since the 2002 Economic Census, which makes the importance of seeing the 2007 numbers all the more [...]

More Insights on the Importance of Hotels To Our Economy

The following further illustrates the importance of the hotel industry to the region’s economy.  In FY2006 the state saw $14,211.3 million in expenditures on travel related facilities (restaurants, transportation services, retail sales, etc).  Based upon the collection of rooms taxes, 10.4% of these expenditures were made in Barnstable County, or about $1,478 million in direct [...]

More on Hotels and the Benefits of the Tourist Trade

We are starting to work on an update to the Local Comprehensive Plan.  We are also discussing the future of the tourist trade in Dennis.  We need to think about the many benefits that the tourist trade brings to the town.  And we must decide whether these benefits off-set the costs of this industry.
Hotels are [...]

More From the Census of Business – Hotels

In an earlier post on the Census of Business figures for Dennis I mentioned that the Hotel and Food Services industry was a relatively poor performer in comparison to other sectors of the Dennis economy.  Granted the summer of 2002 was the first summer after the 9-11 attacks, one would have expected that the impacts [...]