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Impact of Recent Federal Stimulus on the Travel Industry
Thomas Hazinski | February 15, 2021
By Thomas A. Hazinski, Joseph Hansel Introduction The COVID-19 crisis consumed the United States for approximately three-quarters of the past year. In December 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.[1] The development and distribution of an effective COVID-19 vaccine, alongside other public health measures, should allow us to combat the health effects of the global pandemic. With certainty coalescing around the health solutions to the pandemic, attention must turn to economic solutions. The economic impact of COVID-19 is seen in almost all economic indic...
AHLA Statement on Inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris
AHLA | January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON (January 20, 2021) – The following is a statement from Chip Rogers, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, on the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. “On behalf of the hotel industry, we congratulate President Biden and Vice President Harris on their inauguration. Today’s peaceful transfer of power marks a new chapter as our country moves forward together. Over the last year, our nation, and the world, has faced incredible difficulties, but we are resilient, and working together we can overcome these historic challenges. “As an industry, we continue to face h...
AAHOA President & CEO Cecil Staton Talks Politics and the Campaign to Assist Hoteliers
Fran Worrall | November 12, 2020
The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) is the nation’s largest hotel owners association, representing nearly 20,000 members who own almost one in every two hotels in the United States. With billions of dollars in property assets and hundreds of thousands of employees, AAHOA members are core economic contributors in communities across the country. Recently, Hotel Online talked with AAHOA President & CEO Cecil Staton about the association’s ‘10,000 Letters, One Purpose’ campaign, which encouraged hoteliers to engage with members of Congress and the White House to implore them to pass a stimulus package that would eas...
