The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Statewide; Baltimore; Lexington, MD; KY; AL; NATIONWIDE · Maryland
- Level
- Organizer
- In force
- No start date could be read from the record.
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Passenger Transportation and Travel Services SEC-21
Operative words
"Once a driver to economic growth and recovery over decades, the industry now sits idle and dying, losing 75 percent of its annual revenue" (American Bus Association, November 2020, Ex. SEC-21-GM-035)
The organizer's notice
ABA Startling Economic Facts Motorcoach Group Tour Industry
Notes
2020: Maryland closed senior centers by order March 12, 2020 (Ex. MD-002, restated Exs. MD-004); Lexington closed its senior centers March 13, 2020 (Ex. MET-SDF-044) and reopened its facilities June 3, 2021 (Ex. MET-SDF-035); Alabama's public-gathering orders closed senior programs (Exs. AL-003, AL-005); travel-agency storefronts fell under the non-essential closures and telework mandates of March-June 2020; U.S. Travel reported the 'catastrophic impact' on travel businesses March 17, 2020 (Ex. SEC-21-GM-041). 2021: Congress created the $2 billion Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services (CERTS) program for motorcoach, school bus, passenger vessel and pilotage companies that 'suffered revenue loss due to the coronavirus pandemic' (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Div. N, Title IV, Subtitle B, December 27, 2020; more than 1,400 grants; Ex. SEC-21-GM-045); senior centers reopened between spring and fall 2021 under local orders (Ex. MET-SDF-035); U.S. Travel's final tally put 2020's lost economic output at $1.1 trillion (Ex. SEC-21-GM-042). Usual dates: Year-round; fall and spring tour seasons. Scale: ABA, November 2020: the industry's '3,000 small businesses closed their doors and furloughed more than 100,000 employees and left idle 36,000 buses'; 'losing 75 percent of its annual revenue' (Ex. SEC-21-GM-035); ABA, May 2021: nearly 600 million passenger trips a year, 236 million motorcoach group-tourist trips, nearly 80 million hotel room nights, $237 billion total economic impact (Ex. SEC-21-GM-036). Venue orders 2020: MD-002, MD-004, MET-SDF-044, AL-003, AL-005. Venue orders 2021: MET-SDF-035, SEC-21-GM-045.