A week after opening for applications, several hundred businesses have applied for grants from a $100 million state program meant to offset the cost of rehiring tourism-sector employees as the industry recovers. 

The highly-anticipated return of New York City’s hotel industry and Broadway will be celebrated on Monday, May 2, 2022 as a crowd of hundreds gathers at the “Red Carpet Hospitality Gala,” an Annual Dinner hosted by the Hotel Association of New York City Foundation (HANYC Foundation). The event will feature a special Broadway performance, to be announced. The fundraiser will take place at Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan. Proceeds from the Gala will support the HANYC Foundation’s charitable goals.

After two years of sparse crowds in Times Square and other popular attractions, New York City is finally hoping for a robust rebound of visitors this year. But the city will still be missing a main driver of its prepandemic tourism boom: big spenders from China, whose government has yet to allow travel abroad.

Before the pandemic, China was the fastest-growing source of foreign visitors to the city, with more than 1.1 million Chinese tourists arriving in 2019. Their impact on New York’s economy was supersized because they tended to stay longer and spend more than other tourists.

After two years of sparse crowds in Times Square and other popular attractions, New York City is finally hoping for a robust rebound of visitors this year. But the city will still be missing a main driver of its prepandemic tourism boom: big spenders from China, whose government has yet to allow travel abroad.

After two years of sparse crowds in Times Square and other popular attractions, New York City is finally hoping for a robust rebound of visitors this year. But the city will still be missing a main driver of its prepandemic tourism boom: big spenders from China, whose government has yet to allow travel abroad.

NEW YORK, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The highly-anticipated return of New York City’s hotel industry and Broadway will be celebrated on Monday, May 2, 2022 as a crowd of hundreds gathers at the “Red Carpet Hospitality Gala,” an Annual Dinner hosted by the Hotel Association of New York City Foundation (HANYC Foundation). The event will feature a special Broadway performance, to be announced. The fundraiser will take place at Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan. Proceeds from the Gala will support the HANYC Foundation’s charitable goals.

If you were out in the city this past weekend you saw a spring-fueled resurgence. Times Square was packed. City Guide’s distribution team has spent the past few days fielding a higher volume of “more maps, more magazine copies” requests from hotel desks than since before the pandemic. The news from the Hotel Association of New York City is excellent, with the week of March 6th-12th reflecting the highest occupancy numbers since the holidays, with Saturday spiking up to 80% full.