February visitation to Las Vegas increased by 19% when compared to January, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Just over 1.5 million people visited Las Vegas last month, according to the authority, although the figure still represented a 54% drop from February 2020.
Strip hotel occupancy for February spiked to 42%, a more than 10% jump from January, but still well off the 88% figure from February 2020, which was just before the large-scale onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
Throughout Las Vegas, hotels saw weekend occupancy in February increase by 15% when compared with the previous month.
Through February, about 2.8 million people have visited Las Vegas, according to the LVCVA, which is about 4 million less than what the city attracted during the first two months of 2020.