Top Hotel CEOs Meet With President Trump, Vice President Pence on Urgent Assistance to Keep Hotels From Shuttering; Protect Millions of Employees From

AHLA | March 18, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 18, 2020) – Leading hotel CEOs met today with the White House to discuss urgent economic recovery solutions needed to protect millions of U.S. hotel employees and 33,000 small businesses as travel grinds to a virtual halt across the country.  From Main Street to major cities across the country, hotels everywhere are on the verge of shutting their doors in the coming days – many by the end of this week. With 1 in 25 jobs supported by the hotel industry, the rapid pace of booking cancellations is having an immediate, negative ripple effect that risks seeing mom and pop hotel owners shutter, furlough their employees...