GREEN BAY - Wisconsin’s $22 billion tourism industry is hurting for help after thousands of its workers found other jobs when the coronavirus pandemic shut down leisure and business travel.
Hotels, recreation centers, resorts, restaurants, entertainment venues and other businesses have put the ‘help wanted’ signs out for housekeepers, chefs, wait staff, front desk clerks, office managers and sales staff more people prepare to travel as the coronavirus vaccines roll out.
Without enough workers, tourism-related businesses could have to turn down bookings and reservations, stunting their recovery.
“It’s been brutal,” said Bill Elliott, president and CEO of the Wisconsin Hotel & Lodging Association. “It’s literally putting hotels in a position of having to cut sales off because they can’t clean all the rooms they need to the following day. It’s really a weird time.”
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Kate Ferrel will be taking over the position in July.
“I am so incredibly honored to be given this opportunity to lead this institution,” said Ferrel.
Ferrel started with Nicolet College in 2014 as the Dean of Students.
She then went on to serve as vice president of Student Affairs and eventually to her current position as executive vice president of Academic and Student Affairs.
Ferrel told WXPR she has several priorities.
They include continuing the college’s pandemic recovery and getting out into the communities to see how Nicolet College can fill the needs of businesses in the district.
“I’d like to get out and about to the district and understand what sort of problems people are trying to solve and maybe find a way where Nicolet College can be a part of finding a solution for them and the problems they’re encountering,” she said.
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