PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 3, 2021
Today, the hotel industry, which was one of the first industries to face the economic toll of the pandemic, is turning out to be one of the last on the road to recovery. According to a new national report conducted by the American Hotel and Lodging Association, though hotels are projected to add about 200,000 new jobs by 2022, over one in five hotel jobs lost during the pandemic – about 500,000 in total – will not return by the year’s end. In all, the pandemic has wiped out 10 years of job growth in the hotel industry, the report says.