COVID comeback: How Miami hotels beat out the rest of the country Taylor Dolven, Miami Herald
If you asked Miami hoteliers in January what 2021 would have in store for the city’s hospitality industry, likely none would have predicted they’d be charging higher rates for rooms than ever before.
But that’s exactly what’s happening as the recovery of Miami’s leisure and hospitality sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic far outpaces the rest of the country.
In June, Miami hotels charged visitors an average of $225.03 per night, according to data from STR, a hospitality data firm, up 49% from the pre-pandemic rate of $150.92 in June 2019. In contrast, hotels nationwide charged less an average of $129.00 per night in June, down 4% from June 2019.
CT hospitality jobs struggling to recover from the coronavirus
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Restrictions wipe out 10 years of job growth
BY KEITH M. PHANEUF CTMIRROR.ORG
July 24, 2021
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Connecticut has known for months the coronavirus hit its hospitality industry harder than those in most other states.
Now it’s learned things are worse than many thought.
According to revised projections from the American Hotel & Lodging Association, Connecticut will have regained by year’s end slightly less than 72% of the 26,225 direct hotel industry jobs it lost during the pandemic.
Those 7,400 unfilled jobs is significantly worse than the 5,900-position-gap the AHLA forecast for Connecticut back in May.
“The pandemic has been devastating to the hospitality industry workforce, wiping out 10 years of hotel job growth,” the association wrote, adding that the hotels and other lodgings are expected to end 2021 down 500,000 jobs compared with 2019 employment levels.