May 22, 2020

On March 30th, we announced the Superhost Relief Fund to provide grants to tenured hosts who are facing financial challenges because of travel disruption and other impacts of the global COVID-19 crisis. Today, we are providing an update to let […]

May 22, 2020

Many Americans had to cancel travel plans to follow shelter-in-place guidelines when the novel coronavirus spread. The hotel and airline industries have been hit particularly hard from recent disruptions, with airlines having to fly “ghost” planes and hotels around the […]

May 21, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C — As Congress considers additional stimulus legislation to address the economic and health fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, AAHOA highlighted specific steps lawmakers can take to help the hotel industry in a letter to Congressional leadership. The letter, […]

May 20, 2020

More than half of the 15.8 million travel-related jobs in the U.S. have disappeared since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – driving an unemployment number (51%) that is more than twice the 25% rate the country as a whole […]

May 20, 2020

COVID-19 has quickly brought the hospitality industry to a grinding halt. As hoteliers grapple with closures and layoffs, technology remains a steadfast partner. In this article we look at some ways your technology choices can help – or is already […]

May 19, 2020

It will take the majority of Americans at least 60 days after “experts sound the all clear” on Covid-19 before they feel comfortable resuming travel, a survey released this week concluded. The survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted April 8 […]

May 19, 2020

United Airlines’ incoming CEO Scott Kirby doesn’t mince words. “It’s far better to be too aggressive than not aggressive enough,” then-United’s president told a J.P. Morgan industry conference in early March, laying out a bleak picture of potentially sharp revenue […]

May 18, 2020

The latest U.S. hotel forecast from STR and Tourism Economics projects a 57.5% decline in revenue per available room (RevPAR) in 2020, then a 48.0% increase in the metric in 2021. Each percentage change was downgraded from a late-March forecast […]

May 18, 2020

Returning to operations in our new environment is sure to bring many expected and unexpected challenges. Between figuring out social distancing protocols and mitigating risk throughout the property, hotels will be contending with a lot as we move through the […]

May 15, 2020

As human beings, we know change is inevitable. They say life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% is how we respond to it. There’s no question the hospitality industry will rebound from this challenging period. And when […]