MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – More than 36,000 travel and hospitality workers in Minneapolis have been impacted by the pandemic.
That has “Meet Minneapolis” looking at ways to bring business back. The tourism organization said the city has been impacted not just by the pandemic but also the unrest that followed after the death of George Floyd.
During a virtual meeting Thursday morning, numbers put the past year into perspective.
“As the result of COVID-19 and the pandemic, Minneapolis lost more than 1.6 million hotel room nights,” said Melvin Tennant, president of Meet Minneapolis.
That statistic has contributed to the city’s hospitality industry being down 40%.
In fact, more than half of all jobs lost in Minneapolis have been in…