News and notes from around the interweb:
- As in many cities, in Austin several hotel properties are renting themselves out as offices while in Boston among other places hotels have become college dorms.
Emerson College in Boston has taken over eight floors of the nearby W Hotel to house 192 students after partially reserving sections of one residence hall, the Paramount Center, for quarantine rooms. The University of Pittsburgh says that 1,100 first-year students have been assigned to the three hotels that are operating exclusively for its students: two separate Residence Inns and the Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center.
- I wonder if reports that the Trump administration plans to unveil additional aid for airlines in the coming weeks really just refers to finalizing CARES Act loans (that are separate from payroll grants). Even in an era where the government bans evictions on the most tenuous of legal authority they’d need Congress to appropriate payroll support – they’ve already spent the FEMA money.
- The oldest hotel in every state
- Disney Cruise Line planning for 70% occupancy
- If nothing else, the legacy of Covid-19 for business travel should mean never having this happen in a lounge again:
That moment when the woman serving you food in the lounge tells you how bad her flu symptoms are.
— gary leff (@garyleff) March 6, 2015
- Travel shaming – another plague of 2020 not nearly as prevalent of severe as it was in April.
The Evictions thing is so blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. Were it a Democratic administration that did this, Republicans would be losing their minds and grabbing the pitchforks. It would be front-page news everywhere.
I say this as a Trump voter and non-landlord btw.
Thanks for the hotel link. Cool stuff
The travel shaming article seemed less about travel shaming than how to evade leisure travel restrictions, despite the title.