NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The hotel industry of the United States has seen a loss of 5 million jobs since February, as one of the results of the COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed nearly 210,000 lives in the country, according to the latest statistics.
The hotel room occupancy rate in August in the United States stood at 48.6 percent, down by 31.7 percent over the same period last year, and the rate went further down to 48.5 percent during the second week of September, said STR, a private entity that provides data benchmarking, analytics and marketplace insights for global hospitality sectors.