Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Jim Tisch, ke alakaʻi o Loews Corp., ua hana ʻo ʻAmelika i kahi "hana maikaʻi o ka pepehi ʻana" i ka ʻoihana hōkele ma ka hōʻino ʻana i ka huakaʻi hui a hōʻeha i ka hiki o American International Group Inc.
"ʻO ka ʻōlelo hoʻohewa i loaʻa i ka huakaʻi huakaʻi he mea make maoli nō ia no ka ʻoihana," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Tisch i nehinei ma kahi hālāwai ninaninau ma kahi keʻena o ka hui paʻa o New York, nona nā hōkele. "He mea maʻalahi i ka mea kālai'āina ke loaʻa ka nahu leo. ʻO ka mea a lākou e hana nei me kēlā mau kani kani e hoʻopau ana i nā kaikamahine a me nā bele i ka hana. "
Ua hoʻokuʻu ka hui hōkele o Loews i $ 34 miliona i ka 2009, ke hoʻohālikelike ʻia me ka loaʻa kālā he $ 40 miliona ma 2008. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Tisch, ka luna hoʻomalu a me ka luna hoʻokele nui o Loews, ʻo ka huakaʻi hui e pili ana i ka hapalua o ka ʻoihana hōkele o ka firm, a ua pilikia nā hana i ka wā i hoʻowahāwahā ʻia ai nā huakaʻi hele ʻoihana. ma waena o ka $700 biliona hoʻopakele o nā ʻoihana kālā. I ka makahiki 2008, ua hoʻopau ʻo AIG i hoʻopaʻa ʻia ma kahi o 160 mau hanana i kūʻai ʻia he $80 miliona.
Ua hāʻule nā kumukūʻai lumi ʻehā hapahā o Loews i ka 14 pakeneka mai ka makahiki mua i $217. Ua emi iho ka noho ʻana i ka 61.6 pakeneka mai ka 65.8 pakeneka, ua ʻōlelo ʻo Loews Luna Hoʻokele Waiwai ʻo Peter Keegan i nehinei i kahi kelepona kūkā.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Pelekikena Barack Obama i ka makahiki i hala aku nei, ʻo nā hui e loaʻa ana ke kōkua e hōʻemi i ka huakaʻi a me ka uku. "ʻAʻole hiki iā ʻoe ke hāʻawi i kēia mau pona nui a hiki i kou hoʻihoʻi ʻana i ka poʻe uku ʻauhau," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Obama ma kahi hālāwai o ke kaona ma Pepeluali 2009. "ʻAʻole hiki iā ʻoe ke loaʻa nā mokulele hui. ʻAʻole hiki iā ʻoe ke hele huakaʻi i Las Vegas a i ʻole e iho i ka Super Bowl ma ka dime o ka poʻe ʻauhau.
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- “The criticism that took place of group travel was really a death knell for the industry,” Tisch said yesterday in an interview at an office of the New York-based holding company, which owns hotels.
- Tisch, the chairman and chief executive officer of Loews, said group travel comprises about half the firm's hotel business, and operations suffered as lawmakers disparaged corporate trips amid the $700 billion rescue of financial firms.
- You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime.
