I don’t much care that it was up, it is more about why Hotel Occupancy was up, than the fact that it was up.

Hospitality Advisors President Joseph Toy said the increase was fueled by a big increase in visitors from Canada — up 31.6 percent — convention-goers, sports travel and an upswing in independent travelers.

The state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism reported last week that visitor arrivals rose 5.9 percent in February to 603,689 visitors, helped in part by an extra calendar day because of leap year. Still, excluding the extra day, those arrivals rose 2.8 percent.

It is also good to see that room-rates are still increasing as well.