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Lake Tahoe shutting down to tourists Friday By Gregory Thomas
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Vacation travel to Lake Tahoe will be banned for at least three weeks starting Friday because of a regional rise in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. The state’s stay-at-home mechanism was triggered Wednesday for a vast region of 13 counties, from Sacramento east to the Nevada border.
Though not unexpected, the news that Christmas travel would be off-limits came as a blow to the state’s premier winter tourism destination, which first went into shutdown with the rest of the state in March.
Lake Tahoe travelers seeing cancellations after region bans visitors
Jesse Gary reports on how the region is responding to the ;latest coronavirus surge.
The annual Winter trek to California’s Lake Tahoe is experiencing the COVID-19 effect.
“There are restrictions on hotels now. They are not allowed to take reservations going forward,” said Carol Chaplin, the president & CEO of the Lake Tahoe Visitor’s Authority.
He said current hotel and Airbnb occupants can complete their stays. But those who have reservations for the upcoming holidays are being sent cancellation notices.
A notice from Northstar Hospitality sent to a KTVU associate saiid the three-bedroom, two bath mountain condo booked for later this month had been canceled.