Jason Q. Freed

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• Lasting effects of tech-led coronavirus lockdowns on travel (Phocuswire)
• Five reasons the hotel industry will overcome the pandemic (Forbes)
• Survey shows positive signs for investment rebound (Hotel News Now)
• Report: COVID-19 hotel forecast – London (Phocuswire)
• Hotels require more PPP loan funding to save jobs (AHLA)
• Forget ‘new normal.’ Think reset. (HR 2020)
• AHLA launches plan for enhanced cleaning standards (AHLA)
• Hilton attempts to define new standard of cleanliness (Hilton)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• What hoteliers can do to prepare for COVID-19 recovery (EHL)
• No sugarcoating US hotels’ record drops in March (Hotel News Now)
• Seven cost-saving measures to help avoid layoffs (Lodging Magazine)
• Will glamping emerge as the ideal social distancing vacation? (Forbes)
• B&Bs offer perfect option for ‘new normal’ getaways (PR Newswire)
• Lessons from a start-up for a better tomorrow (Linkedin)
• Publicly traded hotel firms won’t give back loans (Associated Press)
• LodgingStream: A Brave New World (Long Live Lodging)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• Business travel has stopped. No one knows when it will be back. (New York Times)
• 71 publicly traded companies got PPP funding before money ran out (Forbes)
• Reopened Wynn Resorts will have thermal cameras, masks, CEO says (LV Review-Journal)
• A plan to reopen Nevada (Nevada Independent)
• Inactive capital likely to sweep through hotel distress (Hotel News Now)
• Marriott Launches Global Cleanliness Council (Marriott)
• ‘Genuine Relationships. Real Results’ in Crisis (Lodging Magazine)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• CBRE, Kalibri agree RevPAR won’t return until 2023 (eCornell)
• Vegas execs discuss reopening with dealers in masks (Bloomberg)
• HVS outlines the impact of COVID-19 on hotel values (Hotel News Resource)
• HVS’s COVID-19 impact on lodging tax revenues (Hospitality Net)
• Lenders: Hotel financing to emerge stronger post-crisis (Hotel News Now)
• NYC will use 11k empty hotel rooms as quarantine sites (Daily Mail)
• Ashford Trust provides hotels to assist communities (Ashford)
• Duetto Pulse Report shows signs for recovery (Hotel Management)
• University of Surrey launches ‘Hack Hospitality at Home’ (Surrey)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• Weekly data says U.S. hotels yet to hit rock bottom (STR)
• Marriott’s CEO Sorenson: ‘We will travel again’ (Linkedin)
• Travel resumes as lockdown ends in COVID epicenter (China Daily)
• Oyo announces 50-60% declines, furloughs thousands (Skift)
• 15,000 hotels on board with AH&LA’s ‘Hospitality for Hope’ (AH&LA)