‘The single most significant crisis' of 2010 | By Patrick Mayock

Like a gladiator returning from combat, the U.S. hotel industry has come face-to-face with a number of considerable challenges this year: dismal demand, plunging rates and lack of financing to name a few. Yet while murmurs of recovery have begun to echo from the masses, the fight is far from over. Jim Abrahamson, president of the Americas for InterContinental Hotels Group, made this clear when discussing debt, which he called the “single most significant crisis that’s going to face us this year” during a panel at the AH&LA’s Hospitality Leadership Forum this week in New York.