Luxury Vacation Rental Owners on Cape Cod and the Islands Hope to Make up for a Dreary Summer Season in September
Sept. 6, 2006. An article by staff of the Boston Globe reports that resort operators on the Cape Cod and the Islands rue a generally mediocre season. – “It has been a summer of bad tidings for Cape Cod tourism: record rains, Portuguese man-of-war sightings, and high gas prices. As Labor Day yesterday marked the traditional end of the high season, merchants and hotel operators were reporting lackluster trade this summer on the Cape and the Islands.�
However, there is still some hope that a strong September might help to make up for May and June, which was the wettest two-month period in Boston since record-keeping began in 1872, and also dreary on the Cape.
It is clear that the experience of the Cape area was unique to the weather problems it experienced. The mediocre Cape numbers contrasted with those in the state as a whole. Figures released last week said that occupancy rates for June and July were up 3.2 percent, according to Massachusetts tourism officials.
We have always had one of our strongest months in our mountain cabins in September. We hope our property owners on the Cape have the same experience this year.There are a lot of nice luxury vacation rentals in the Cape and the Islands. If the weather is nice they should benefit from the growing popularity of the beaches when they are a bit quieter that in the summer months. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce is running an ad campaign showing an empty beach with the words: ``Psssst. The Coast Is Clear."
