Accommodations are locations usually related to pleasure, leisure and luxurious – weddings, events, holidays – or extra mundane actions like enterprise journeys and conferences. They’re omnipresent and bizarre, however when circumstances are extraordinary, as they’re in the midst of the present COVID-19 disaster, inns should adapt rapidly to new and surprising realities.
As the present disaster steadily closes down the vacationer business in lots of components of the world, empty inns are being redeployed as lodging for key medical employees, as quarantine centres or as discipline hospitals. Not locations for leisure, enterprise, enjoyment and indulgence, they’ve develop into as an alternative very important parts within the infrastructure of disaster administration.
It’s, after all, nicely documented that in crises, reminiscent of wars, inns can play an vital function.
They are often militarised (as strategic property), as a few of Beirut’s grandest – the St Georges, the Phoenicia, the Hilton and the Vacation Inn – had been throughout the “Battle of the Accommodations” in Beirut in 1975.
