Hotel industry struggling during the pandemic

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Kevin King lives with his wife and three children outside of Buffalo, New York. He was hoping to get out of town for Labor Day before his oldest starts kindergarten on Wednesday.

“We looked at hotel prices, and hotel prices looked good, but we just couldn’t pull the trigger,” King said. “We didn’t feel comfortable in a hotel.”

He knows hotels are cleaning more and trying to limit contact between guests and employees, but they can only do so much.


“Hallways and elevators are the things that scared us the most. I’m not sure how you socially distance when someone’s coming down the hallway,” he said.

The American Hotel & Lodging Association released a report outlining the current state of the industry as the pandemic continues to depress demand.

Four in 10 hotel employees are still not working and two-thirds of hotels remain at less than 50% occupancy.

“All hotels lost, but the hotels that have done the least worst are those basic drive-in, drive-out, get-out-of-here hotels,” said Michael Noel, professor of economics at Texas Tech University.

There’s also a lot less business travel these days, so hotels aren’t getting that revenue, either.

Chip Rogers, CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, said hotel workers are paying the price.

https://www.marketplace.org/2020/09/07/hotel-industry-struggling-during-pandemic/

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Talk to Trump. He was in charge in Jan-Feb 2020 when he did fuck-all

with the virus. He was in charge and 150.000+ died because he failed as POTUS.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Without Covid-19, I would have

spent at least two weeks, maybe more like three, in hotels by this point in the year.

If I decide to go somewhere, I will probably feel comfortable staying in a hotel. It's just that right now I'm not willing to travel. And that's despite being the healthiest person I know, especially at my age, 72. Perhaps some of my cautionary feelings aren't needed. I do know that the virus is NOT spread on surfaces. It's essentially completely spread by airborne droplets, and if we all wear masks, and wear them properly (cover your NOSE as well as your mouth, and wear one that is actually effective) the spread is reduced by a huge amount. I am very glad that I live in Santa Fe, NM, where people are good about wearing masks in stores. A couple of months ago compliance was lax, but it's excellent now. I have not seen an unmasked person inside a store in a very long time. I'm sure that's an important part of why our infection rate is relatively low.

Of course, the huge problem is that a person can be infected, can be spreading the virus, and have zero symptoms. Pretty much any other disease I know anything about, that's not the case. Typhoid Mary lives on in legend and fact because she was a genuine anomaly, a person who had no symptoms of the disease she carried and passed on. She was an asymptomatic carrier. And with Covid-19, there are a lot of asymptomatic carriers.

Heck, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if I were to be one in the end.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. Tonite on MSNBC: Colleges and unis. are experiencing increasing numbers of students with the virus.

This ain't over by a long shot. The higher institutions of learning are going to get hit financially bigtime.

Students went to campus, are being quarantined or got sent back home. A veritable gigantic mess compliments of Covid-45 and his wrecking ball.

[JI7]

4. This is all because of Trump's failure in everything

[Thekaspervote]

5. Staying in a hotel just 2 nights is risky

This was posted here a few weeks back...worth a review

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213711178

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I had to move put of my house last Friday and Saturday because

I'm having all the hardwood floors refinished. I took my 2 cats and we went to a local Marriott suites hotel. It was almost full. Changes were a bag breakfast with no hot foods, closed gym and pool, and no daily maid service. Price was sky high.