{"id":215482,"date":"2025-09-10T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215482\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:33:09","slug":"advocate-of-big-pay-hike-doesnt-understand-basics-of-hotel-industry-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215482\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocate of big pay hike doesn\u2019t understand basics of hotel industry \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cTourism workers deserve $25 an hour\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/wpdash.medianewsgroup.com\/2025\/09\/05\/opinion-workers-deserve-higher-pay-doom-and-gloom-warnings-dont-pan-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sept. 7<\/a>): Mikey Knab\u2019s commentary demanding a 45% increase in pay for tourism workers lacks a basic knowledge of the hotel industry. As executive director of the San Diego County Lodging Association, I work with a diversity of hotels.<\/p>\n<p>First, the big brands don\u2019t own hotels, they manage or franchise them. Hotel owners are separate from brands, responsible for investments and costs.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of hotels are family-owned businesses that cannot survive this increase without significant changes. Even the city exempted itself from the $25 minimum wage because it can\u2019t afford to pay that rate.<\/p>\n<p>This tourism-only wage will hurt our economy. Just as California\u2019s restaurants lost 23,000 jobs after imposing a $20 fast-food wage, San Diego hotels will lose 4,000 jobs annually and generate fewer taxes, reducing funds for essential government services.<\/p>\n<p>With hotels offering fewer amenities and fewer jobs, visitors will go elsewhere. To think otherwise is completely unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fred Tayco, Mission Valley<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cTourism workers deserve $25 an hour\u201d (Sept. 7): Mikey Knab\u2019s commentary demanding a 45% increase in pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-215482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115180024984732539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}