Crain’s recently brought some of the city’s leaders together to talk about how hotels, restaurants and other tourism-related businesses will recover from the pandemic. Here’s some of what they said.

Travel restrictions and a slow return to the office are hitting New York’s hotel market hard, just as the city reaches what would normally be peak tourist season.

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A scaled-back United Nations General Assembly is returning to Manhattan this week after going completely virtual last year, but fears about a possible spike in Covid-19 cases are making people in the host city less enthusiastic about the annual diplomatic gathering.

Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams on Monday fleshed out his plan to attack New York’s housing crisis, outlining a blueprint that would convert distressed outer-borough hotels into some 25,000 rooms of supportive housing.

Eric Adams announced his plan to convert struggling hotels into homeless housing on Monday in Brooklyn.

HANYC is one of the oldest professional trade associations in the nation. Today, HANYC is an internationally recognized leader in New York City’s $5 billion tourism industry, with nearly 300 hotel members and 80,000 rooms. 

The Thakurs of Chicago started planning their trip to New York in earnest back in May when they found out all four family members could finally be vaccinated.