Colorado Springs hotels posted the highest occupancy rates in the nation for the week ending Aug. 15 and the weekend of Aug. 15-16, according to STR, a leading tourism industry data and research firm.

Business owners in Manitou Springs are happy that one of the town’s premier attractions, the Manitou Incline, reopened Aug. 6.

After businesses in Colorado shut down in late March under a statewide stay-at-home order designed to impede the spread of COVID-19, hotels registered occupancy at just under 17 percent, the lowest rate in decades.