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As more countries mobilize their crisis workers, hotel groups can at least rely on small levels of business — the tricky part will be figuring out which properties stay open, and who exactly checks in.
With the world adjusting to new lockdown measures, many hotels are understandably closing.
Some will play their part in the recovery efforts though, from proposed plans to transform into emergency safe spaces to protect rough sleepers from coronavirus, to re-purposing beds for medical use. However, the hospitality sector shouldn’t rule out a surge in demand from one type of customer — the crisis worker.
In the UK, the government has ruled crisis workers (including key workers such as police,
