LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – This week, state Sen. Mike McGuire will host a discussion with leaders of California’s tourism and hospitality industry on the road to reopening.
The virtual meeting will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24.
To attend, RSVP to McGuire’s office here.
California’s hospitality and tourism sectors are some of the largest economic drivers for the state.
Before the global pandemic hit, more than 1.2 million Californians earned their livelihoods in hospitality. Visitors spent $145 billion at California businesses in 2019, generating $12.3 billion in state and local taxes.
The impacts of COVID-19 have been absolutely devastating for hospitality workers and the thousands of small businesses who rely on a healthy tourism economy.
More than half of California’s 1.2 million hospitality workers have lost their jobs and the state has lost over $70 billion in visitor spending.
That’s why, since the first statewide shelter-in-place last spring, Sen. McGuire has been working with a broad coalition of advocates – including labor, tourism, hospitality, and local chambers of commerce – to address the incredible challenges they are facing and help get over 600,000 hard-working hospitality employees back to work safely and strategically.
On Wednesday, during the roundtable discussion, Sen. McGuire and hospitality and tourism industry leaders from across the state will discuss a strategic road map for safely reopening and the critical importance of getting California’s hospitality workers safely back to work when the California Department. of Public Health declares it is appropriate to resume travel.
Roundtable participants include Caroline Beteta, president and CEO, Visit California; John DiFlauro, Disneyland Resort castmember and chief shop steward, Teamsters Local 495; Horacio Cortés, Santa Clara County Convention Center team member, steward, Teamsters Local 853; Bharat Patel, president, Castle Inn & Suites; and Rhonda Salisbury, CEO/film commissioner, Visit Yosemite.
McGuire to host Feb. 24 economic roundtable with California’s tourism and hospitality leaders
- Lake County News reports
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