Coronavirus is crushing Florida’s tourism industry, and hotels are trying to hang on

In a study released late Friday, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, an industry trade group, projected that 44% of hotel employees in each of the 50 states will have lost or will lose their jobs in the coming weeks. In Florida, the study projects that the “coronavirus-induced job loss” will be 88,631 out of the 201,433 direct hotel jobs now in place. “Total hotel supported jobs,” which now number 747,705, will be cut by 305,146, the study predicts.