NEW YORK (WABC) Hotels, like so many in the hospitality industry, are suffering amid the pandemic and now hotel owners are asking for help.
Normally bustling hotels in New York City s heaviest traveled tourist areas are now in crisis due to the pandemic, business restrictions, and lack of tourism.
Room rates have plummeted without tourists to patronize them or their restaurants, and thousands of workers have lost their jobs. New York s hotels are in serious trouble, Hotel Association President and CEO Vijay Dandapani said. Two hundred hotels closed either temporarily or permanently, thousands jobs have been lost. Thousands of people count on our industry jobs to take care of their families and the pandemic has devastated livelihoods, said Rebecca Hubbard, GM of Lotte New York Palace.