BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 31, 2020
Across Maine, business owners in the hospitality industry — which include owners of restaurants, motels, lodges, amusement parks, white water rafting companies and others — are wrestling with unprecedented uncertainty as the time left to save the summer tourist season, and with it the livelihoods of thousands of Mainers, grows smaller by the day. Business owners across the state and country are making decisions about the future of their businesses while operating with a dearth of information about the virus, the tourist season and, in some cases, when they will be allowed to reopen to out-of-state visitors. Perhaps no industry has been more disrupted than the hospitality industry, which depends on tourists and sells socially intimate experiences.