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COVID-19 economy: Huge job losses hammer Bay Area hotels, restaurants [The Mercury News :: BC-CORONAVIRUS-BAYAREA-ECONOMY:SJ]
SAN JOSE, Calif. Coronavirus-linked economic woes unleashed mammoth job losses for hotels and restaurants in the Bay Area and all of California last year, as business travel, tourism and dining out shriveled, an analysis of new reports shows.
The Bay Area lost well over 100,000 hotel and restaurant jobs, a drop of 33.6 percent from 2019, according to figures compiled by Beacon Economics that were analyzed by this news organization.
In California, the economic setbacks erased nearly a half-million lodging and dining jobs, a 29 percent drop from the prior year.