Luxury Resorts Face Guest-Worker Challenges
Photo Credit: The Wauwinet Lady. Seasonal luxury resorts, such as those in Nantucket, are finding themselves between a wall and a hard place. Nantucket Island Resorts
Skift Take
The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant stance is filtering down into the hospitality industry. Big companies will probably be alright, but smaller operators will find things much tougher if they can’t bring in staff from overseas.
Luxury Travel News
The Skift New Luxury column is our weekly column focused on the business of selling luxury travel, the people and companies creating and selling experiences, emerging trends, and the changing consumer habits around the sector.
Travel and tourism don’t exist in a vacuum. No matter how good your latest campaign or new hotel is, politics, economics, or another outside actor has the power to derail any project.
In many instances it’s not the big companies that suffer most. Rather it’s the smaller independent operators who take the hit, and this week we have a story illustrating that very point. Immigration is a key issue for President Trump and his supporters, and this is now filtering down into the luxury hospitality industry, thanks to restrictions on short-term visas
