Hotel chains are matching the need of the hotel industry to make money and alleviate low occupancy numbers and universities' attempts to safely bring students back to campus.
What it's really like to stay in a hotel during the coronavirus pandemicThe University of Pittsburgh and Xavier University of Louisiana are working with Wyndham and Hilton, respectively, to house hundreds of students.
"We really deployed almost our entire sales team to reaching out to colleges and universities across the country," Carol Lynch, senior vice president of sales at Wyndham, said."And then we did find that was a much bigger project and initiative for several of these universities and colleges that saw the need." She couldn't share a firm number of universities that the chain was working with, as they too finalize agreements.
The University of Pittsburgh has used the Wyndham University Center to house students the past few years, though it hasn't needed to rent the whole property – until now. It was natural to expand that relationship in addition to securing other hotels within a 15-minute walk to campus to house students.
Xavier University of Louisiana, the only Catholic HBCU school in the U.S., decided that every student would live in a private room this year, as a means of risk reduction amid COVID-19, Curtis Wright, vice president of student affairs at Xavier, said. The New Orleans university has about 1,400 beds on campus, and needed about 600 extra rooms to accommodate everyone. They settled on the Hilton Riverside after visiting 15 local hotels; the university rented out two of the hotel's three towers.
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