National Television:

• The National: Hotels implement enhanced cleaning, safety measures to reopen during pandemic

• BNN Bloomberg: Susie Grynol, HAC President & CEO, speaks with Amanda Lang

• BNN Bloomberg: Small hotels cash flow has run dry

• CTV News: Hotel Association of Canada warns impact of COVID-19 on business 

• CBC News: Canada's hotel industry hammered by COVID-19

• CHCH News (Ontario): Canadian tourism plummets due to COVID-1

• BNN Bloomberg: 'We were hit bad and hit early': Germain Hotels co-founder

 

National Print Headlines:

• Globe and Mail: Canadian companies begin laying off thousands of employees in first wave of pandemic job losses

• Toronto Star: Hotel Association of Canada warns of impact of COVID-19 on business
  (This story, published by the Canadian Press, was published in 75 regional markets)

• BNN Bloomberg: Atomic jobless bomb forces Canada to confront scale of crisis

• CBC: Devastated by the pandemic, Canada's hotels make plans to reopen

• Global News: Ontario COVID-19 Measures Layoffs  in hospitality, travel industries

• Financial Post: Air Canada stock plummets 8% on fears North American air travel could take $21B hit

• 'Catastrophic': Tourism industry decimated from COVID-19 will need more help if it wants to survive

• BNN Bloomberg: Plummeting business tourism costing cities hundreds of millions

 

Trade Publications:

• Hotelier Magazine: Hotel industry has crashed says HAC statement

• Hotelier Magazine: Hotel Industry Responds to Growing Public-Health Concerns

• Canadian Lodging News: Canada’s Hotel Industry faces collapse

• Canadian Lodging News: Business Continuity a critical issue for hotels

• TravelPulse: Hotels Hit Hard by COVID-19: World Travel/Tourism Group Calls for Massive Aid

 

British Columbia

• COVID-19: Hotel operators hope Phase 3 of B.C.'s restart can save their summer

• Prepping in case NHL's COVID Cup games played in Vancouver

• Coronavirus: Okanagan hotels preparing to re-open with new protocols

• Tourism group calls on gov't to stop 'complete collapse' of sector

• B.C.'s visitor economy faces collapse without government relief, tourism association warns

• Delta Kamloops Hotel to close indefinitely

• NL Newsday with Ingrid Jarrett

• COVID-19 Cabinet created to support business, workers across B.C.

• COVID-19: B.C.'s hotel industry facing closures, mass layoffs

• BC Hotels Warn of Layoffs

• ‘This is unprecedented’: B.C.’s hotel industry takes a huge hit during coronavirus crisis

• Daybreak South with Chris Walker: Interview with Ingrid Jarrett

• Iconic hotels in Victoria shut down over coronavirus concerns

• The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn: Vancouver's hotel and restaurant owners worry about their futures – a discussion with Listel Hotel Vice President, John Nicholson

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Alberta:

• Edmonton Journal (Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association): Finding homes for homeless a public health emergency in its own right

• Edmonton Sun: Alberta tourism industry braces for impact of COVID-19

• Calgary Sun: Tourism groups in Calgary on alert over spread of COVID-19

• Some of Calgary's homeless to be sheltered in hotel, motel rooms during COVID-19 outbreak

• Hospitality business hit hard by virus

• Edmonton hotels open but empty as pandemic devastates hospitality industry

• COVID-19 a 'bad dream' for tourism

• 770 CHQR: David Kaiser, President & CEO of the Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association speaks with The Morning News With Sue Deyell And Andrew Schultz

 

Saskatchewan: 

• Global News (Saskatchewan | Saskatchewan Hotel & Hospitality Association): 10,000 hospitality workers expected to be laid off in Saskatchewan

• Saskatchewan hotel association hopes to house hospital patients, homeless

• Saskatoon hotel offers discount rooms to doctors, nurses wanting to isolate during COVID-19

 

Manitoba

• Scott Jocelyn: Pulling back the shutters

• Manitoba Hotel Association: Radio CJOB

• Global News (Manitoba | Manitoba Hotel Association): Coronavirus ‘catastrophic’ for Manitoba hotel industry, says association head

• Province thinking ahead by reaching out during coronavirus pandemic: Manitoba Hotel Association

• CJOB interview with Scott Jocelyn, President & CEO of the Manitoba Hotel Association (March 19, 2020)

• CJOB interview with Scott Jocelyn, President & CEO of the Manitoba Hotel Association (March 24, 2020)

• CBC: VLTs still operating in Manitoba despite physical distancing recommendations

• Winnipeg Sun:   COVID-19 a Bad Dream for Tourism

• Winnipeg Sun: Health supplies, tax breaks and shelters given boost by province

 

Ontario:

• CTV Nothern Ontario: Reopening Strategies for Hotels

• North Bay Nugget: Hotel room cancellations part of COVID-19 fallout

• CTV News (Ottawa): ‘It’s Decimating’: Ottawa’s tourism and hotel industry hit hard by COVID-19

• Ottawa Business Journal: Chateau Laurier set to close amid dire circumstances for hotel industry

• Deloraine Times, Dawson Creek Mirror: Hotel Association of Canada warns of impact of COVID-19 on business

• Hamilton businesses close up hoping for help from government

• Ottawa looks for hotels, university residences to house residents in COVID-19 self-isolation

• Ontario COVID-19 measures see layoffs in hospitality, travel industries

• Canada turning to makeshift hospitals to house patients as COVID-19 pandemic stretches capacity

• How Toronto hotels are dealing with the impacts of COVID-19

• Many hotels could remain closed for good, Ottawa hotelier says

• 'It's been devastating': Over half of Ontario tourism businesses shut down, and some may never reopen

 

Prince Edward Island

• COVID-19 'catastrophic' for P.E.I. hotel operators says industry group

 

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