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'Complete freefall': Hotel industry braces for disaster

Ingrid Fuary-Wagner
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The accommodation industry is heading for a cliff with 70,000 direct employees, such as cleaners or hotel receptionists, expected to be laid off in the next three months.

"We are in complete freefall as a sector," Dean Long, chief executive of the Accommodation Association of Australia, told The Australian Financial Review.

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Ingrid Fuary-Wagner is the AFR's explainer editor, based in Sydney. She previously wrote about property and before that was news editor at Domain. Connect with Ingrid on Twitter. Email Ingrid at ingrid.fuary-wagner@afr.com

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