Visit Bellevue — Economic Impact of the Kiosk Network | TrueOmni
Visit Bellevue · Economic Benefit Overview

Thirteen lobby screens. 29,113 sessions. $442K of visitor spending.

Seven months of measured kiosk activity across eleven Bellevue properties, translated into attributed visitor spending, public tax and partner impact — with every assumption on the record.

$442KEconomic impact
$39.4KPublic tax
$15.18Per session

Jan 1 – Jul 31, 2026 · TrueOmni CMS analytics · monthly shape modeled

29,113
Measured sessions
6:35
Average dwell per session
412,615
Ad impressions delivered
13
Kiosks · 11 properties
The numbers

What the network returned.

Attributed figures for the seven-month reporting period, with the annualized run-rate alongside. A defensible slice of Bellevue's visitor economy — not a claim on all of it.

$441,985Attributed economic impact $238,911 direct visitor spending plus $203,074 influenced. Annualizes to $758,122.
$39,356Public tax generated $17,227 stays local — Bellevue lodging tax plus the city and county share of sales tax. $67,506 annualized.
$15.18Attributed spending per session The unit economic that scales directly with traffic and conversion.
$638Per attributed conversion 692 attributed visitor decisions over the period; 1,188 annualized.
MeasureJan 1 – Jul 31, 2026Annualized
Kiosk sessions29,11349,908
Attributed conversions6921,188
Direct visitor spending$238,911$409,796
Influenced spending$203,074$348,327
Total economic impact$441,985$758,122
Public tax$39,356$67,506
Ad inventory value ($12 CPM)$4,911$8,424

In context: Bellevue hosted 2.2M overnight visitors in 2025, generating $760M in overnight spending and $2.3B in total economic impact. This network's contribution is a small, measurable slice of that — and the only slice with a session-level audit trail behind it.

Where it lands

Who the impact reaches.

Spending is distributed using what visitors actually did: dining is the most-used action, and eight of the ten most-shared listings are restaurants — so dining carries the largest share.

Partner categoryJan–Jul 2026AnnualizedShare of impact
Restaurants & dining$137,632$236,07531%
Hotels & lodging$109,547$187,90125%
Attractions & tours$71,649$122,89816%
Events & venues$41,928$71,91710%
Partner impact captured$360,756$618,79182%

Hyatt Regency carries a quarter

$185K of annualized impact from a single lobby — 24% of the network, from the unit with the highest session volume.

Three anchors, half the value

Hyatt Regency, Courtyard by Marriott and Hyatt House together account for 49.7% of sessions and impact.

Room to grow at the tail

The lighter units run near 500 sessions each. Attract-loop and property-specific content is the direct lever there.

Public tax

What comes back to the city.

Attributed spending flows into three taxable bases at Bellevue's published rates. The line that matters to the city is the local one: lodging tax plus Bellevue's and King County's share of sales tax.

Tax lineRateJan–Jul 2026Annualized
Lodging tax — net of sales tax4.2%$4,290$7,358
Sales tax · lodging10.3%$10,520$18,044
Sales tax · dining & retail10.3%$15,780$27,067
Sales tax · attractions & tours10.3%$8,767$15,037
Total public tax$39,356$67,506
Stays in Bellevue & King County$17,227$29,548

The local read  $29,548 a year of public revenue traceable to thirteen lobby screens — roughly $2,270 per kiosk, before counting the advertising inventory below. Rates: Bellevue combined sales & use tax 10.3%; all-in lodging 14.5% (WA Dept. of Revenue, Q2 2026).

Media network

Inventory that already exists.

The network delivered 412,615 ad impressions over the period — 707,000 annualized. Real, delivered inventory in front of a captive hotel-lobby audience.

  • The headroom is rate and sell-through — not volume. The impressions are already being served.
  • A dining-led audience in eleven hotel lobbies is a specific, sellable proposition.
  • Bellevue restaurants, attractions and shuttle partners reach guests at the deciding moment.
ScenarioCPMAnnualPer kiosk/mo
Remnant / programmatic$8$5,616$36
Market rate$12$8,424$54
Direct-sold · hotel lobby$30$21,216$136
Scale scenario

What 20 and 30 touchpoints look like.

Today's thirteen touchpoints are the network's best rooms. The scenario below adds placements at what the middle of the current network delivers — not what the anchors do — so the growth line stays defensible.

$758K
13 touchpoints · today
49,908 sessions / yr
$1.06M
20 touchpoints
69,508 sessions / yr
$1.42M
30 touchpoints
93,508 sessions / yr
Annualized13 · today20 touchpoints30 touchpoints
Kiosk sessions49,90869,50893,508
Economic impact$758,122$1,055,854$1,420,423
Public tax$67,506$94,017$126,480
— stays in Bellevue & King County$29,548$41,152$55,361
Ad impressions707,367985,1661,325,328
Ad value · $12 CPM$8,488$11,822$15,904
Ad value · direct-sold $30 CPM$21,221$29,555$39,760
Impact per touchpoint$58,317$52,793$47,347
+7

Reach 20 touchpoints

Seven placements at 2,800 sessions a year each — mid-network performance — add $298K of annual economic impact and $26.5K of public tax.

+10

Reach 30 touchpoints

Ten further placements at 2,400 sessions each take the network to $1.42M of annual impact and $126K of tax — nearly double today on both lines.

Be honest about the curve

Value per touchpoint falls from $58.3K to $47.3K as site quality declines. The network still grows — each new screen simply earns less than the Hyatt Regency does.

What would raise these lines faster than more hardware: conversion. Every point of lift in the mobile handoff multiplies across all touchpoints at once — at 30 touchpoints, the same funnel improvement is worth 1.9× what it is worth today. Scenario assumptions are modeled: 2,800 annual sessions per new touchpoint for units 14–20 and 2,400 for units 21–30, drawn from the mid-tier and tail performance of the live network. Impact, tax and impressions scale on the measured per-session rates ($15.19 impact, $1.35 tax, 14.2 impressions).

Method

How the number is built.

Every figure starts from activity the kiosks recorded, then applies a documented chain to reach dollars. Nothing is asserted without a source.

01

Start with measured activity

29,113 sessions, 6:35 average dwell, 4,299 top-action interactions and 412,615 ad impressions — from the TrueOmni CMS export for January 1 – July 31, 2026.

02

Apply the intent funnel

Sessions to high-intent (17%) to attributed conversion (14% of high-intent) — the TrueOmni platform benchmark. That yields 692 attributed visitor decisions.

03

Price with Bellevue's own economics

$345 per attributed visitor — Visit Bellevue's reported $760M of overnight spending divided by 2.2M overnight visitors. No invented spend figure.

04

Run Washington's tax rates

Bellevue's 10.3% combined sales tax and 14.5% all-in lodging rate, split into the share that stays local and the share going to the state.

Data provenance

What's measured, what's modeled.

An economic-impact figure is only as good as its honesty about where it came from. This is the full ledger.

Measured or cited

Straight from the source

  • 13 kiosks · 29,113 sessions · per-property counts and dwell
  • 6:35 session-weighted dwell
  • 4,299 top-action interactions; 40 send-to-phone shares
  • 412,615 ad impressions
  • 2.2M overnight visitors · $760M spending · $2.3B impact (Visit Bellevue, 2025)
  • 10.3% sales tax · 14.5% all-in lodging (WA DOR, Q2 2026)
Modeled

Replace as better data arrives

  • Funnel rates: 17% high-intent, 14% conversion (platform benchmark)
  • Influenced spending at 0.85× direct (Tourism Economics range 0.7–1.1)
  • Spend split: 30% lodging / 45% dining & retail / 25% attractions
  • Lobby passersby, derived as sessions ÷ a 45% interaction rate
  • Seasonal curve — the export covers January–July only
  • Ad CPMs and fill rate; capital and software in the payback math

Two inputs would materially firm this up: real lobby foot-traffic counts (OMNI PeopleCount or hotel-supplied), replacing the modeled interaction rate — and actual contract capital and software figures in place of the placeholders. No digital signage is included: the export covers interactive kiosks only.

Make the number bigger

Two levers, both already in the data.

The economics scale with more sessions carrying intent to a phone, and with better-priced inventory on screens that already serve impressions.

Lever one · Conversion

Raise the value per session

Forty send-to-phone shares against 29,113 sessions is the most improvable number in the report. Trackable QR and a visible handoff on dining and event content move attributed spend directly — at today's traffic each additional attributed conversion carries about $638 of economic impact.

Lever two · Media

Price the inventory properly

707,000 annualized impressions in eleven hotel lobbies, sold direct to Bellevue dining and attraction partners, is a $21K line rather than an $8K one — without adding a single screen.

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