Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has partnered with leading organizations to give team members whose positions have been furloughed or eliminated access to job opportunities opening up across various industries including retail, grocery, senior living and more.
Stay home today, #TravelTomorrow
By staying home today, we can travel tomorrow. The hashtag #TravelTomorrow encapsulates this message of solidarity and hope, through which the UNWTO calls for shared responsibility among travellers and the tourism sector around the world to deal with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
US hotels sign up to support healthcare community
AHLA’s ‘Hospitality For Hope’ initiative connecting hotels to health agencies to provide temporary housing for emergency and healthcare workers or as alternative care sites.
Baird/STR Hotel Stock Index drops 36.0% in March
The Baird/STR Hotel Stock Index dropped 36.0% in March to a level of 2,748. Year to date through the first three months of 2020, the stock index was down 47.9%.
Hilton and American Express to donate 1 million rooms
Hilton and American Express announced that the companies, in partnership with Hilton’s ownership community, will donate up to 1 million hotel room nights across the United States to frontline medical professionals leading the fight against COVID-19.
COVID-19 is inspiring new ideas in food retail
With social distancing rules in place, and restrictions on eating out to stop the spread of COVID-19, food retailers have been forced to reinvent their business models to maintain cash flow.
Marriott notifies guests of property system incident
Marriott International announced that it is notifying some of its guests today of an incident involving a property system. The notice explains what occurred, the information involved, the measures taken by Marriott to investigate and address the issue, how Marriott is assisting guests and steps guests can consider taking.
Message from Madrid: Tourism and COVID-19
A message from Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization.
UNWTO launches a call for action for Tourism’s COVID-19 mitigation and recovery
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of recommendations calling for urgent and strong support to help the global tourism sector not only recover from the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19 but to ‘grow back better’. The Recommendations are the first output of the Global Tourism Crisis Committee, established by UNWTO with high-level representatives from across the tourism sector and from within the wider United Nations system.
Hilton Grand Vacations COVID-19 business update
Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. provides an update on its business in response to the rapidly evolving situation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
