Hotel Industry Urges Local Governments to Use New Federal Funding to Support Hospitality

“The pandemic has been devastating to the hospitality industry workforce, wiping out 10 years of hotel job growth,” the CEOs stated in the letter. “Twenty percent of leisure and hospitality jobs—3.5 million in total—have been lost during the pandemic and have yet to return, and the unemployment rate in the hospitality and tourism sector remains 300 percent higher than the rest of the economy. With hotels expected to end 2021 down 500,000 direct jobs, an additional 1.3 million...
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