CWA Blog Archive-January Reopening Dashboard The Latest Coronavirus News Among CWA Members

January Reopening Dashboard The Latest Coronavirus News Among CWA Members

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This article reports on the CWA's January 2021 Reopening Dashboard, part of the monthly data collection tracking how member gyms coped with the pandemic. It notes that climbing gyms remained among the hardest hit businesses in the country despite the help offered by the December 2020 COVID Relief Package, and that the CWA was working to understand how the industry was coping with continued government-mandated closures and other pandemic effects. Having collected data from member facilities since gyms began reopening after the initial spring 2020 closures, the CWA had nine months of data revealing emerging patterns, though much remained to be learned. The article explains the dashboards' methodology: each month since May 2020, the CWA administered a series of questions to member gyms to understand reopening procedures and coping strategies, with results available in the Coronavirus Resource Hub alongside community calls, webinars, and other timely information. The January bottom line emphasizes resilience: of 103 respondents, 78.6% currently had all their facilities open, up from 70% in December 2020, often thanks to creative member appreciation efforts and stringent cleaning techniques. The throughline is that the CWA's monthly reopening data provided the industry a clear, evolving picture of how climbing gyms were weathering the pandemic, and that January 2021 showed member facilities to be incredibly resilient, with a rising share fully open.

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This piece reports the CWA's January 2021 Reopening Dashboard, part of monthly pandemic tracking since May 2020. Despite gyms being among the hardest-hit businesses, it found members resilient: 78.6% of 103 respondents had all facilities open, up from 70% in December, sustained through creative member appreciation and stringent cleaning.