Because of the assist of our superb members, 2024 was a banner 12 months for advocacy on the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA).

Throughout the nation and in any respect ranges of presidency, we achieved a powerful array of coverage victories this 12 months. Listed here are a few of the highlights of what we’ve achieved:

Federal Advocacy Victories

On the federal degree in 2024, AHLA

• Protected franchisees and the resort enterprise mannequin by efficiently suing the Nationwide Labor Relations Board to strike down its joint-employer rule;
• Led a coalition that efficiently sued the Division of Labor relating to its additional time rule, which threatened to impose larger labor prices on hoteliers throughout the nation beginning in 2025;
• Efficiently lobbied for important will increase to federal worker per diem charges for lodging and meals bills, together with a lodging price enhance estimated to be price greater than $86 million to hoteliers;
• Helped safe congressional authorization for the Division of Homeland Safety to double the variety of out there H-2B visas for fiscal 12 months 2024;
• Facilitated the bicameral introduction of human trafficking prevention laws—the HOTEL ACT, H.R. 9681—which enhances AHLA Basis’s No Room for Trafficking program; and
• Secured passage of the No Hidden FEES Act within the Home of Representatives, a invoice that will create a complete single customary for clear and necessary charge shows throughout the lodging business.

State and Native Advocacy Victories

On the state and native degree in 2024, AHLA

• Launched an intense lobbying and media marketing campaign in New York Metropolis that resulted in important enhancements to a invoice that will have brought about huge financial hurt to town’s resort business and financial system;
• Helped move laws in Hawaii to rein in unlawful short-term leases, which had been unfairly competing in opposition to inns and making housing unaffordable for native residents;
• Stopped flawed laws in New Jersey that will have wrecked the resort franchise mannequin within the Backyard State;
• Defeated onerous tax insurance policies in a number of cities and states, together with an actual property switch tax in Chicago and a transient tax in Utah;
• Expanded a worldwide alliance of nationwide hospitality associations to impression coverage tendencies and higher assist AHLA world membership; and
• Expanded its state and native political program by practically 40 p.c 12 months over 12 months.

Priorities Transferring Ahead

Voters throughout the nation this 12 months ushered in a extra business-friendly atmosphere in most jurisdictions, and Republicans received the presidency in addition to the U.S. Home and Senate. This may change the political panorama in 2025, however AHLA’s advocacy strategy stays the identical irrespective of who’s in workplace. We are going to shield hoteliers’ backside traces by working to keep up an atmosphere through which resort professionals can concentrate on operating and rising their enterprise relatively than coping with onerous legal guidelines and dangerous insurance policies.

Meaning supporting business-friendly tax charges and insurance policies to develop the workforce, preventing regulatory overreach, defending the resort franchise mannequin from authorities interference, and guaranteeing a degree taking part in area for inns and short-term leases. Particular priorities AHLA is pursuing now and into 2025 embrace

• Extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, greater than $4 trillion in tax provisions that can have an effect on hoteliers’ backside traces;
• Rising the resort workforce by increasing the variety of H-2B visas by way of payments just like the Closing the Workforce Hole Act (H.R. 7262);
• Passing laws just like the Resort Charges Transparency Act within the Senate and the Home-passed No Hidden FEES Act, each of which might create a nationwide customary for lodging price transparency throughout all the business; and
• Opposing draconian state and native makes an attempt to focus on inns with economically damaging operational mandates and purple tape.

We’re highly effective when hoteliers communicate with one voice, and AHLA is proud to symbolize you as we work with lawmakers in each events to notch extra victories for our nice business in 2025 and past. Thanks in your assist.