Will Guests Notice As Upscale Hotels Shed Workers To Survive? | usatoday.com

It's arguably the most important gathering of the year for the industry, where the top execs of the USA's major hotel-brand companies, hotel owners, investment bankers and other industry movers and shakers go to rub elbows and (in better times) do deals. Not surprisingly, the tone this year was a bit on the depressing side as people pondered whether travel demand has hit bottom yet (answer? probably.