The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its December employment report, which showed that the economy added just 199,000 jobs in the last month of 2021.
The leisure and hospitality sector trended upward but added just 53,000 jobs in December and a total of 2.6 million jobs in 2021. Still, employment in the industry is down 1.2 million jobs since February 2020, a loss of 7.2 percent.
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The U.S. Travel Association responded to the latest statistics, noting that they are “underwhelming.”
“The latest jobs report points to an uneven recovery for the Leisure & Hospitality sector, which had its second-worst performance since January 2021,” said U.S. Travel Association Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Policy Tori Emerson Barnes. “The small gains made are not enough to propel the sector toward a larger recovery, as more…