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		<title>March 2025: 13.1% more visitors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Charles M. Kelly March 2025 visitor counts were 13.1% greater than in March 2024, according to data recently released by Love Catalina Tourism Authority. (Love Catalina released the March and April data on June 30; and the May data on July 9. This week, we look at the March 2025 numbers.) “March’s total arrival [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>February 2025: visitor count up 32.9%</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 18:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Visitor counts were 32.9% greater in February 2025 than they were in February 2024, according to data recently released by Love Catalina Island Tourism Authority (the local Chamber of Commerce). Love Catalina released the February 2025 visitor counts on May 19. “Passengers arriving by sea in February totaled 53,302, up for the month by 33.5% [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>January 2024 saw 15.5% more visitors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[BY CHARLES M. KELLY The January 2024 visitor counts to Catalina Island increased by 15.5% compared with January 2023, according to data recently released by Love Catalina Tourism Authority. “January’s total in-bound passenger count was above the three, five and ten-year averages for the month by 15.6%, 11.8% and 24.9% respectively,” lovecatalina.com said. As usual, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>December 2023 visitor count is a record</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Catalina had a record-setting December 2023, according to statistics recently released by Love Catalina Tourism Authority. “December visitation increased year-over-year by 12.3% or 7,783 visitors totaling 70,869 arrivals. December 2023 total arrivals set a record for the month slightly beating last year’s high of 63,086,” according to the Love Catalina website. “Passengers arriving by sea, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>November 2023 visitor count increases 14.7% over November 2022</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The November 2023 visitor count was 14.7% greater than in November 2022, according to statistics recently released by Love Catalina Tourism Authority. Unfortunately, hotel occupancy was slightly down. (See below for details.) First, the lodging numbers followed by the visitor numbers. Lodging “Hotel Occupancy for November was down by 2.4% @ 60.2% vs. 61.7% in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>October visitor counts are out</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2023 19:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Overall October 2023 visitor counts increased by almost 11.9% more than October 2022, according to statistics recently released by Love Catalina Tourism Authority. Cruise ship visits were up by nearly half (see below for details), according to the business group. In related news, the Disney Wonder will return to Catalina. Some categories of visitor counts—cross [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>September 2023 brought 13,357 more visitors than last September</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Love Catalina Island Tourism Authority reported that 13,357 more visitors came to Catalina Island in September 2023 than in September 2022. The business group put that increase at 13.9% from the previous year. “Passengers arriving by sea, totaled 187,766, up for the month by 15.6% from last year,” according to the Love Catalina Island website. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>July 2023 visitor count sets a record</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The July 2023 visitor count beat the recorded visitor counts for Avalon, according to Jim Luttjohann, president and CEO of Love Catalina Island Tourism Authority. (Love Catalina is the local Chamber of Commerce.) “In July, Hotels saw a dip year-over-year in occupancy but Short Term Rentals saw an increase,” Luttjohann wrote in an email. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>January 2023 sees more visitors than 2022</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Overall, more visitors came to Catalina in January 2023 than in January 2022, according to figures that Love Catalina Island released this week. The numbers “January visitation increased year-over-year by 5.7% or 2,226 visitors,” according to the Love Catalina website. “January 2023’s total of 41,437 was below 2020’s pre COVID-19 total monthly arrivals of 52,691 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Luttjohann reports good news for Catalina’s economy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most measures of visitor economy met, exceeded pre-pandemic levels According to Jim Luttjohann, president and CEO of Love Catalina, the Island’s economy met or exceeded pre-pandemic measures of success in most cases. The non-profit Love Catalina Island, also known as the Catalina Island Tourism Authority, recently released December 2022 visitor statistics and year-end report. “The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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