Hotels will add 200,000 direct operations jobs this year, but will remain nearly half-a-million jobs below the industry’s pre-pandemic employment level of 2.3 million employees, according to the AHLA’s “state of the industry” report for 2021.
In Ohio, job losses peaked in April during government-mandated pandemic shutdowns, when Ohio’s travel and hospitality lost 51% of its jobs, displacing 289,100 Ohioans, according to the Ohio Travel Association.
The job losses experienced in 2020 are a result of a loss of more than $12.8 billion in business revenue last year, the state association said, citing Tourism Economics data.
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