NEW YORK, Oct 12 — John Farrell and his wife booked a US$1,000 (RM4,139) room in the morning and were in New York hours later for their one-night stay. The couple is part of a new local and last-minute clientele keeping the lights on at the city’s most luxurious hotels now that the...
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The yellow taxis and limousines that used to pile in front of swanky hotel The Pierre are gone. So are the crowds of foreigners mingling in the lobby. Then comes “every convention you can possibly have, fundraising galas, the fall season for the weddings, and then its Thanksgiving all the way to Christmas and New Year’s Eve,” he said.
Instead of tourists from Europe and California, nearby residents are booking luxury “staycations” — arriving by car for short stays of 24 or 48 hours, often while visiting relatives nearby, Luiggi said. Hotels still welcoming “real” visitors are only 10 percent booked on average, he said, and some 25,000 workers in the sector are unemployed.The tourism downturn has been brutal in the Big Apple, where hotels have sprouted like mushrooms in recent years, not only in Manhattan but also in areas such as Brooklyn and Queens.
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