Hotel CEOs: Government still a mess, but industry moving forward in 2013 | hotelmanagement.net

panel of hotel CEOs here at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit were mostly bullish on the state of the industry, but wary of issues mainly out of their control, namely, governmental. "The government issue is a mess," said Robert Gaymer-Jones, CEO of Sofitel, which will open 10 hotels this year. "Taxation is creating problems for individuals. How to pay for the debt?"