Terminating Management Contracts + Assessing COVID Status + COVID-19 Related Lawsuits + New Legal Questions + Biometric Privacy Laws

The curtailing of travel and leisure activities in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had an undeniably devastating impact on the hospitality industry.

In spring 2020, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, hotels across the U.S. and internationally saw an unprecedented, immediate and catastrophic decline in occupancy unlike anything seen before in prior recessions. This has, inevitably, resulted in depressed revenues over a protracted period.

Estimates on when the industry will recover vary significantly, with many suggesting it could be two to five years for most hotels to recover to 2019 occupancy and revenue levels. The disruption to the industry was significant and the impact of the crisis has yet to be fully understood.

What Hotels Need to Know About Biometric Privacy Laws

March 2, 2021 via Hotel Management

From face recognition to thumbprints and retina scans, the use of biometrics in the workplace provides innumerable benefits to security and efficiency. There can be some big downsides, too, if policies aren’t put in place to safeguard employees. In order to avoid liability, employers should become familiar with biometric privacy acts, consumer privacy acts and data breach notification requirements.