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"Starting the Saturday before Easter, our vacation rentals start filling up," said Taylor Damonte, director of the Clay Brittain Jr. Center for Resort Tourism at Coastal Carolina University. "I'm expecting us to be virtually full for the weekend of Easter ... for hotel-condohotels."
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The weeks aren't completely comparable because Easter fell almost three weeks earlier last year, he said. Occupancy for the start of this month was not as strong as a result, but April occupancy overall is expected to be greater than the same month last year, Damonte said.
Grade school and high school schedules affected by the late Easter probably account for the disparity, Swaim said. Easter falls on April 24, one day before the latest possible day that Easter can fall, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Family Kingdom Amusement Park expects strong sales around Easter, although it will be tough to top last year, general manager Donnie Sipes said. The park opens on weekends for most of the spring, but operates for a full week before and after Easter.
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"You're probably going to see the usual late April crowd show up versus the Easter crowd," operated by united express airlines person usd itinerary Mustert said. "Easter is not going to have a big impact on our crowd because for us the last 15 days of April were good already."
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"I've been saying for some time that that's what happens when Easter comes later, but how much of that is weather driven, how much of it is economy driven, how much of it is calendar driven, how much of that is advertising driven - it's all of the above," Damonte said.