"Customers are now starting to recover from COVID-19 and business is starting to escalate quite dramatically," Herbert told the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority Board at a meeting one month after Gov. Dozens of scheduled events now dot the calendar for the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Hynes Convention Center and the Lawn on D, a large portion of which have been confirmed in the past month. Between July 2020 and June 2021, BCMC staff booked 12 large-scale convention events at the BCEC and Hynes, according to data Herbert presented. Taken together, they project to bring about 90,000 nightly hotel room stays to the area. Between March 2020 and December 2020, MCCA experienced 178 event cancelations, together representing more than 535,000 hotel room nights, according to meeting minutes from May.

Source: MetroXpress July 16, 2021 12:47 UTC