Media: COVID-19’s Effects on the Hotel Industry

The Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) and its provincial and city hotel association partners have been driving headlines about the impact of COVID-19 on hotels, explaining to the public and governments that relief for our industry means relief for owners, small business and employees. As a result, HAC’s message was covered on every major national news network, earning 150 million impressions nationally. 

Television Headlines:

• BNN Bloomberg: Small hotels cash flow has run dry
• CTV News: Hotel Association of Canada warns impact of COVID-19 on business 
• CBC News: Canada’s hotel industry hammered by COVID-19
• CHCH News (Ontario): Canadian tourism plummets due to COVID-19

Print Headlines:

National:

• Globe and Mail: Canadian companies begin laying off thousands of employees in first wave of pandemic job losses
• Toronto Star: Hotel Association of Canada warns of impact of COVID-19 on business
  (This story, published by the Canadian Press, was published in 75 regional markets)
• BNN Bloomberg: Atomic jobless bomb forces Canada to confront scale of crisis
• Global News: Ontario COVID-19 Measures Layoffs  in hospitality, travel industries

Trade Publications:

• Hotelier Magazine: Hotel industry has crashed says HAC statement
• Canadian Lodging News: Canada’s Hotel Industry faces collapse
• Canadian Lodging News: Business Continuity a critical issue for hotels
• TravelPulse: Hotels Hit Hard by COVID-19: World Travel/Tourism Group Calls for Massive Aid

Manitoba

•  Global News (Manitoba | Manitoba Hotel Association): Coronavirus ‘catastrophic’ for Manitoba hotel industry, says association head

Ontario:

• North Bay Nugget: Hotel room cancellations part of COVID-19 fallout
• CTV News (Ottawa): ‘It’s Decimating’: Ottawa’s tourism and hotel industry hit hard by COVID-19
• Ottawa Business Journal: Chateau Laurier set to close amid dire circumstances for hotel industry

Alberta:

• Edmonton Journal (Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association): Finding homes for homeless a public health emergency in its own right

 Saskatchewan: 

• Global News (Saskatchewan | Saskatchewan Hotel & Hospitality Association): 10,000 hospitality workers expected to be laid off in Saskatchewan