Preparations for an influx of visitors are already underway as hotels, restaurants and attractions across Washington, D.C., brace for the next presidential inauguration. Elliott Ferguson, II, Destination DC president and CEO, told Fox News Digital via email, 'The public hasn’t been able to participate in the inauguration since 2017, so we expect significant interest.' Due to COVID-19, President Biden’s inauguration in 2020 was scaled back as the pandemic kept Americans from attending.
The Jefferson DC, a luxury boutique hotel, will have a professional fashion illustrator on-site to capture guests wearing their inaugural ball finest by hand-drawing watercolor portraits that will be framed and gifted to guests the following day. 'Inauguration is always a very exciting time in the nation's capital.