• “Outdoor recreational rentals” :The rental of recreational equipment including (but not limited to) golf carts, ATV’s, boats, Kayaks, canoes, paddle boats, and snowmobiles, will be allowed starting Wednesday, with certain restrictions.
• Restrictions include: rentals must be paid for on-line or by phone; the business must schedule pick up/drop off to ensure social distancing compliance; customers must remain outside; rented equipment must be cleaned after each use; staff inside must be limited to one person in a room/confined space at a time.
• This is all listed under non-essential businesses Minimum Basic Operations, even though lodging properties are designated as Essential Businesses. This may be as they are viewing this component separate from essential business components, similar to restaurants and bars being separate components.

• The majority of participants this time were independent properties (51%), with 39% from franchise properties and 10% representing multiple properties
• Northern and Central area properties had the highest participate, followed by Door County and then Southern area properties 
• As in recent surveys, the highest participation designated their properties as Hotels, followed by Resorts, then motels, but again with all segments represented.
• For individual properties, 51% are still open, with another 7% saying they are open, but only for contracted business, and 36% are currently closed.
• For multiple property respondents, 58% of these properties are still open, with 8% open only for contracted business, and 31% currently closed. Three properties were noted as permanently closed.
• 34% of properties have laid off 75 – 99% of their employees; 20% have not laid any off, 15% have laid off 50-74% of their employees, and 9% have laid off 100% of employees
• Regarding preferences on when businesses should be able to re-open: 27% would like a date before May 26 – but with some basis on virus containment data; 21% prefer whenever the Governor’s Order Criteria are met first; 19% prefer Mid-May; 13% feel the Governor’s Order date of May 26 is fine, 8% would like to see a week or two before the current May 26 date, and 11% had a variety of separate answers – the majority of which were ASAP.
• Regarding the question on what is the obligation of the traveler or the property in determining if reservations before May 26 comply with the Order: 48% say if a property complies with the requirements stated for Essential Businesses, it is their individual decision on this; 33% say it is the traveler’s responsibility to comply with the requirements of the Order relating to travel; 10% said each property should ask the traveler what part of the Order they fall under, and if they feel they are not complying they should not accept the reservation; and 7% felt that they should send information on the Order to anyone making a reservation before May 26 – and they can decide if that is sufficient or if they would require a sign off to accept the reservation.
• 32 properties currently use J-1 Visa individuals, just 2 use H-2B Visa individuals, and 9 said they normally use one or the other, but not this year.