The cancellation of the in-person Sundance Film Festival will undoubtedly dim the lights on January’s economic numbers in Park City, but a tourism official explained this week it is not time to roll the credits on the winter.
Sundance organizers on Wednesday announced the festival will not be held as a live event in Park City, indicating concern about the novel coronavirus pandemic and the rising number of cases of the omicron variant of the sickness. The festival will instead be held online, as was the case in 2021, rather than the hybrid of live and online that had been planned later this month.
Sundance is typically an especially lucrative stretch for the Park City-area economy. The lodging, restaurant and transportation sectors are among those that enjoy strong numbers, believed to be some of the best of the year, during Sundance.
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