USA TODAY
The five-year plan from the American Hotel & Lodging Foundation aims to increase diversity in the industry in which people of color mostly occupy lower-paying entry-level roles and the vast majority of senior managers are white.
The American Hotel & Lodging Association has 27,000 members, including 10 of the largest hotel companies, in the U.S., including Marriott, Wyndham, Hilton and Hyatt, and 80% of franchise hotels.
Rosanna Maietta, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging foundation, said the industry is coming together “to see greater and faster impact."
In a 2019 report card citing Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data, the NAACP found that entry-level and lower-wage positions were mostly staffed by workers of color, but “racial and ethnic minorities remain inequitably dispersed throughout the lodging workforce."