How Hotels Can Mitigate the Digital Impact of Natural Disasters

Matt Tutt | October 17, 2017

By Matt Tutt With this year's Atlantic hurricane season being one of the 10 most active hurricane seasons on record (14 named storms and 8 hurricanes), combined with the devastating earthquakes in Mexico, the hotel industry in these affected areas have taken a serious hit—both physically through damage to their properties and financially through the loss of bookings. The Miami Herald reported that hotels in Miami-Dade were only 42 percent full between Sep 6 and 9, nearly 38% less than the same time last year. Tourism to Caribbean islands in the hurricane belt, whose islands experienced some of the worst damage, may take even longe...