Matt Carrier
Matt Carrier is vice president of government affairs, policy, and research for AHLA.
Pandemic Relief Protected: AHLA Secures Hotel PPP Loan Forgiveness
As hoteliers are all too familiar, the hospitality industry was among those hardest hit by COVID-19. When travel demand plummeted amid the extreme uncertainty the pandemic created, the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program...
The Road to Recovery: Working on Policies That Will Provide Relief to Hotels and...
When I joined the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) 13 months ago, I could not have imagined the devastation our industry was about to face due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Having grown up in...
Accounting for the Gap Between Guest-Paid, Hotel-Collected Revenue and COPE Revenue
Hoteliers have traditionally evaluated performance based on a variety of metrics across the industry, the common denominator being hotel-collected revenue, most similar to P&L revenue. Hotel-collected revenue is not only used to calculate RevPAR...