March 27, 2020, Tucson – Travel-and-tourism industries are being hit hard by COVID-19, and that affects a large portion of southern Arizona workers. In 2019, there were 45,000 jobs in the leisure and hospitality sector alone. In a KGUN 9 interview EBRC Director Dr. George Hammond discusses how the structure of southern Arizona’s economy might affect the region’s economic recovery once COVID-19 is controlled.
