One giant leap toward that digital age may have come through the census
carried out by the BTB earlier this month. It yielded some interesting
results and Tejada told us that the overarching desire of all hoteliers
at this time was to support as much of their staff as possible.
Ted Tejada - President, Belize Hotel Association
“The Belize hotel association ended up calling about 900 hotels out of
900 we got responses from 70% of the hotels. At that point in time, we
found out that in terms of a global the way the standard is for every
room that a hotel has they normally employ one employee. So we know
that the country of Belize has a little bit over 9000 rooms available
every single day. That means that hotels themselves would be employing
9000 employees that work directly with the hotel. We found out that the
country of Belize has a .9% employee for every room so not the 1 per
one but .9 which actually gives you about 8,700 employees that are
directly employed by hotels in the country of Belize. We were able to
find out that many hotels, I would say 80% of the hotels at that point
when the census was being done, were closed down by then. The last
flight that went on Monday ended up closing the rest of the hotels.
Many of the hoteliers and we are all suffering and said we want to
retain some of our employees and see if maybe we can help them for the
next month which is in April.â€
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