STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 5 February
Connecticut Lodging Association
02/15/2022
STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 5 February
U.S. weekly hotel occupancy eclipsed 50% for the first time in more than a month, but the index to 2019 dipped from the week prior, according to STR‘s latest data through 5 February.
30 January through 5 February 2022 (percentage change from comparable week in 2019*):
Occupancy: 50.4% (-15.8%)
Average daily rate (ADR): US$125.06 (-1.2%)
Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$63.05 (-16.8%)
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AHLA Moving the Needle on H-2B Visas
Thanks to the efforts of AHLA members across the nation, who have been regularly reaching out tolawmakers through AHLA’s grassroots action portal HotelsACT, a bipartisan group of 34 senators is calling on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to release an additional 44,716 H-2B visas for the second half of the Fiscal Year 2022, which begins April 1. Read the text of the senators’ letter here. Additionally, Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan are also calling on DHS to release more visas. Read their letters here and here.
The calls for more visas from Capitol Hill coincide with a Wall Street Journal editorial from this week arguing that America’s H-2B visa shortage is leading to fewer work opportunities for American citizens – eviscerating the notion that H-2B workers somehow take away jobs from our domestic workforce.
